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Bill: GP Company Recruitment Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Gnazenal Phr'unt
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: June 2263
Description[?]:
| Businesses, schools and the armed forces know what is best for them, let them control their own recruitment policies. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Positive discrimination.
Old value:: No form of positive discrimination is permitted.
Current: No form of positive discrimination is permitted.
Proposed: The government does not regulate hiring policies.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 21:54:56, July 29, 2006 CET | From | Black People's Party | To | Debating the GP Company Recruitment Bill |
| Message | Can't support...businesses might have a chance to become racist. |
| Date | 01:20:22, July 30, 2006 CET | From | Democratic Socialist Party of Lodamun | To | Debating the GP Company Recruitment Bill |
| Message | Don't support either. |
| Date | 04:54:35, July 30, 2006 CET | From | Cooperative Commonwealth Federation | To | Debating the GP Company Recruitment Bill |
| Message | Strongly supported. If companies want to offer affirmative action to women or minorities, let them, it's none of the government's business. |
| Date | 18:55:44, July 31, 2006 CET | From | Gnazenal Phr'unt | To | Debating the GP Company Recruitment Bill |
| Message | BPP, no company is going to go out of its way to choose the worst worker, whatever their race. If blacks are clever enough they will be fine. Can't quite understand why libertarians would be against however. |
| Date | 19:37:18, July 31, 2006 CET | From | Black People's Party | To | Debating the GP Company Recruitment Bill |
| Message | But they have a chance to.... |
| Date | 01:38:47, August 01, 2006 CET | From | Cooperative Commonwealth Federation | To | Debating the GP Company Recruitment Bill |
| Message | Positive discrimination/affirmative action is designed to help black people, anyway. Why would the Black People's party want affirmative action banned? |
| Date | 02:00:43, August 01, 2006 CET | From | White People's Party | To | Debating the GP Company Recruitment Bill |
| Message | quit usin yer fancy "logic" on us! |
| Date | 12:07:55, August 01, 2006 CET | From | Gnazenal Phr'unt | To | Debating the GP Company Recruitment Bill |
| Message | Tis true though, currently no company can operate pro-black or pro-women recruiting policies. |
| Date | 11:52:10, August 03, 2006 CET | From | Gnazenal Phr'unt | To | Debating the GP Company Recruitment Bill |
| Message | Not that we'd want them too. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 524 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 177 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: In Culturally Protected nations, it is the responsibility of players to ensure the candidate boxes on their Party Overview screens are filled in with appropriate names. If a player is allotted seats in a Cabinet bill and has not filled in names for the relevant candidate position, then the program will automatically fill in the positions with names which might not necessarily be appropriate for the Cultural Protocols. |
| Random quote: "In politics, you have your word and your friends; go back on either and you're dead." - Morton C. Blackwell |