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Bill: Child Labor

Details

Submitted by^[?]: Better Tomorrow Party

Status^[?]: defeated

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: December 2251

Description^[?]:

Child labor shall be prohibited.

Proposal^[?] to change The government's policy concerning child labour.

Old value:: Child labour is allowed, but with additional regulations to those of adult labourers.

Current: Child labour is forbidden.

Proposed: Child labour is forbidden.

These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:

Date	21:37:54, July 07, 2006 CET
From	Okono Party
To	Debating the Child Labor
Message	We just changed it a few days before you joined. ;) We oppose. Children should be allowed to work too in order to help with family income. Besides that means movies can't have children in them, along with several other things because that would be considered child labor.

Date	21:44:54, July 07, 2006 CET
From	Better Tomorrow Party
To	Debating the Child Labor
Message	Well, it will give the Better Tomorrow Party a chance to take a losing stand on a meaningful issue. ;) It would mean that movies can't have children in them? That's absurd. What definition of child labor includes acting? Surely "laborer" refers to factory and agricultural workers, not acting and sweeping the floor in your parents' store.

Date	22:00:23, July 07, 2006 CET
From	Okono Party
To	Debating the Child Labor
Message	Didn't you ever hear that they have to give children frequent breaks in movies because of labor laws?

Date	23:55:24, July 07, 2006 CET
From	Better Tomorrow Party
To	Debating the Child Labor
Message	So let them have breaks, and eat cake, and all that. All these labor debates would be better if we had employment statistics. Do midgets have high unemployment? This will help them. What about baby-faced actors who can't convincingly play twenty-somethings? The Better Tomorrow Party hierarchy goes to the movies at the behest of lady friends only. We couldn't really care less what happens to child actors. On the other hand, when they turn 16/18 we might suffer an electoral backlash...

Date	02:46:05, July 08, 2006 CET
From	Okono Party
To	Debating the Child Labor
Message	You want to ban child labor not give them breaks! Right now we are regulating it with laws to protect them from over working. Your interest is not with the children as you even stated yourself but for your own wants/needs. You have the wrong idea about the Independent Wantuni Republic. We put the people first, after our own needs.

Date	02:50:35, July 08, 2006 CET
From	Hiroshima Party
To	Debating the Child Labor
Message	We oppose this bill because if the bill that the adult age passes the adult age will be 18 and kids 16 may have families already.

Date	04:30:55, July 08, 2006 CET
From	Better Tomorrow Party
To	Debating the Child Labor
Message	The joke about newly unemployed child actors voting against the Better Tomorrow Party when they come of age? That was a joke, first of all, and it was -- as stated -- against the self-interest of the party. The issue is the definition of labor. Labor and work are not the same -- the law should be understood to ban using children to clean factory machinery (their small hands fit into the gears much better than adult workers). This is early twentieth century progressive stuff here, nothing particularly radical.

Date	23:44:44, July 08, 2006 CET
From	Okono Party
To	Debating the Child Labor
Message	Labor can be defined as productive work. This covers all types of work not just the labor you are talking about.

Date	18:18:39, July 09, 2006 CET
From	Federalists Party
To	Debating the Child Labor
Message	We can understand wishing to ban child labor (we have seen in the early industrial age that they were taken advantage of), however in this day and age things have changed. Just try getting a job at any workplace if you are under 18. How many times have you seen signs for "Help Wanted - must be 18 or over). We believe that this stifles employment opportunities for those who are after summer jobs and the like. Therefore we must vote no.

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