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Bill: Minimum Wage Amendment
Details
Submitted by[?]: Center-Right Coalition
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 2273
Description[?]:
| To eliminate the Living Wage and to establish a less economically devastating Minimum Wage. |
Proposals
Article 1
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 that a single full time worker on it can adequately subsist.
Proposed: There shall be a minimum wage at a level that a full time worker on it can support a family of four without falling under the poverty line.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 06:38:52, August 22, 2006 CET | From | Center-Right Coalition | To | Debating the Minimum Wage Amendment |
| Message | This bill will help spur new jobs. |
| Date | 18:31:49, August 22, 2006 CET | From | Aldegar Social Democratic Party | To | Debating the Minimum Wage Amendment |
| Message | Lowering the minimum wage to poverty-line levels would also decrease the standard of living considerably and plunge many working-class people into poverty. |
| Date | 19:00:02, August 22, 2006 CET | From | Center-Right Coalition | To | Debating the Minimum Wage Amendment |
| Message | A minimum wage is simply what it is. It should not be a government mandated salary that businesses should pay all of their employees. |
| Date | 19:00:03, August 22, 2006 CET | From | Aldegar Social Democratic Party | To | Debating the Minimum Wage Amendment |
| Message | (And by poverty, I mean relative poverty, not below-the-poverty-line poverty. Sorry for the ambiguity.) |
| Date | 19:04:50, August 22, 2006 CET | From | Center-Right Coalition | To | Debating the Minimum Wage Amendment |
| Message | Instead of artificially inflating wages for low paying jobs, why not promote worker retraining programs and college tuition reimbursement so that workers can actually move up in the hierarchy? Everyone wins then. |
| Date | 19:07:26, August 22, 2006 CET | From | Aldegar Social Democratic Party | To | Debating the Minimum Wage Amendment |
| Message | However, to the working class, lowering the minimum wage could mean the difference between a decent standard of living and having almost no spending money. Food, clothing and shelter aren't free. |
| Date | 19:08:28, August 22, 2006 CET | From | Aldegar Social Democratic Party | To | Debating the Minimum Wage Amendment |
| Message | The retraining programs might be a good idea though. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 0 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 375 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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