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Bill: Service industry protection
Details
Submitted by[?]: AM Radical Libertarian 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: May 2309
Description[?]:
| All professions, including the oldest, should have the same protection and recognition under the law. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The right for a person to prostitute himself or herself.
Old value:: Prostitution is legal but not recognized under government employment regulation policy.
Current: Prostitution is legal and a recognized profession.
Proposed: Prostitution is legal and a recognized profession.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 20:06:07, October 31, 2006 CET | From |  Likaton Coalition of the Willing | To | Debating the Service industry protection |
| Message | We could not support condoning the immoral sex trade. |
| Date | 22:35:30, October 31, 2006 CET | From | AM Radical Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Service industry protection |
| Message | The trade is currently legal, but the workers are not covered by any of the protections enjoyed by other tradesmen. This is, in our opinion, blatently unfair. These persons legally work at a skilled trade, like any other, and deserve the same recognization. |
| Date | 00:17:37, November 01, 2006 CET | From | Likaton Coalition of the Willing | To | Debating the Service industry protection |
| Message | This would open the floodgates. Whilst we can see that criminalising this trade would be counter-productive, it is not something we would like to see encouraged. |
| Date | 20:43:31, November 01, 2006 CET | From | AM Radical Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Service industry protection |
| Message | But the current policy is punitive only to those who actually work in the trade, the poorest of our poor in many cases, while allowing those who hire these to avoid any of the government requirements. It thereby rewards those who exploit the workers, while punishing the exploited. In our opinion, this is not fair. |
| Date | 08:13:22, November 02, 2006 CET | From | Likaton Coalition of the Willing | To | Debating the Service industry protection |
| Message | So criminalise the industry, and focus penalties on patrons, not pro's. I can't help feeling that there is a parallel here with illegal drug use, and many other social misdemeanours. |
| Date | 15:28:34, November 02, 2006 CET | From | AM Radical Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Service industry protection |
| Message | That would be an option, and one I would be quite willing to debate in another bill. However, the current system actually incentivives prostitutuion. Consider the position of a businessman who wishes to open an entertainment venue. If he opens as a bar, his employees are covered by all applicable employment regulations, which will cost him cash. If he opens as a bordello and serves drinks to the customers, the hostesses are not covered, which saves him expenses. The law of unintended consequences strikes again. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes | Total Seats: 192 | ||
| no | Total Seats: 309 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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