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Bill: ARM 13: Economic Improvement Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Aŭgustena Revelacia Movado
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: August 4748
Description[?]:
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Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on industry and subsidies to industrial operations.
Old value:: The government acts as an investor of last resort, by nationalizing failing industries that provide vital goods or services.
Current: Certain industries are owned by the state, all others are under private ownership.
Proposed: The government subsidizes private enterprises that face bankruptcy.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The nation's policy on minimum wage regulation.
Old value:: There shall be a minimum wage at a level considered a "living wage," well above the poverty line for a full time worker.
Current: There shall be a minimum wage at a level considered a "living wage," well above the poverty line for a full time worker.
Proposed: There shall be a minimum wage at a level that a single full time worker on it can adequately subsist.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change A law on employers' obligations with regards to social security contributions.
Old value:: All enterprises are required to cover basic payroll contributions for their employees.
Current: All enterprises are required to cover basic payroll contributions for their employees.
Proposed: Payroll contributions are not mandatory but the government grants tax incentives to providers.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change Secondary strike action.
Old value:: Any trade union can go on a sympathy strike in support of other striking workers.
Current: Secondary strike action is illegal. Workers and unions can only go on strike for their own pay and conditions.
Proposed: Only closely related trade unions can walk out on a sympathy strike in support of other striking workers.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 17:20:33, April 28, 2020 CET | From |  neo partio de venko | To | Debating the ARM 13: Economic Improvement Bill |
| Message | no we a pose on the grounds that this only serves the foreign capitalist and continues to punish the working class of the Augustan race |
| Date | 19:57:43, April 28, 2020 CET | From | Aŭgustena Revelacia Movado | To | Debating the ARM 13: Economic Improvement Bill |
| Message | Honourable Deputies, This does not punish the Augustan working class because we have given them a greater level of disposable income in the form of the abolition of income tax for anybody earning less than 20,000 ZAR annually. We are consequently adjusting the legislative policies of the nation to match this. |
| Date | 19:58:12, April 28, 2020 CET | From | Aŭgustena Revelacia Movado | To | Debating the ARM 13: Economic Improvement Bill |
| Message | OOC: Imperial Senators not Honourable Deputies my bad |
| Date | 20:19:08, April 28, 2020 CET | From | neo partio de venko | To | Debating the ARM 13: Economic Improvement Bill |
| Message | ooc its ok if that were true why does it abolish the living wage reduces the power of the union and unobligate the social security being legally required to be paid for by the corporations |
| Date | 16:28:24, April 29, 2020 CET | From | Aŭgustena Revelacia Movado | To | Debating the ARM 13: Economic Improvement Bill |
| Message | Imperial Senators, I feel as if the Partio de Venko failed to listen to our justification. It does not punish the working class because the living wage is no longer needed since they no longer pay income tax. As for the Article pertaining to social security contributions we are merely providing financial flexibility for the both employer and employee. By removing the government from industry we are providing the employer and employee the freedom to come up with amicable contractual solutions by themselves. This is not to say that we are abandoning the worker. New policy still makes it abundantly clear that the government expects companies to provide payroll contributions and rewards them for doing such. We hope that in reducing the scope within which Unions are able to strike they may actually focus on working towards these mutually beneficial contractual solutions regarding Social Security rather than unproductively wander around the streets. If anything we believe a consequence of this bill will be a refocusing of trade unions’ portfolios from a merely political one to one which actually seeks to protect the Augustan worker. We must make it abundantly clear we are not reducing the power a Union has in terms of its own workers’ pay, merely reducing its influence over other workers’ pay. This we believe to be right and proper. We hope this provides satisfactory explanation to the PdV in their quest to understand how this legislation in no way harms the brilliant workers we have in this nation. Justiniano Armentarido Minister of Finance |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |
| yes | Total Seats: 424 | |
| no | Total Seats: 0 | |
| abstain |
Total Seats: 81 |
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