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Bill: Workplace Safety Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Leviathan Party
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: November 2324
Description[?]:
| National safety standards are meaningless if businesses can ignore them as they please. This bill will make our natioanl workplace safety standards mandatory, and will give inspectors the authority to levy daily fines of up to 1 million Py if unsafe workplaces are found. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Health and safety legislation for industry.
Old value:: The government recommends health and safety legislation, but they are not actively enforced on industry.
Current: Health and safety laws are to be determined by local governments.
Proposed: The government introduces and actively regulates health and safety legislation in all areas of industry.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 03:06:42, December 02, 2006 CET | From |  Protectorate Party | To | Debating the Workplace Safety Act |
| Message | We believe that such regulations should remain the domain of the workers and the business. This permits local enforcement, regulations which are meaningful in the environment and created by those who are impacted by them. A governmental body may have the best of intentions, yet craft regulations which are not enforcable or do excessive harm to the buisness and its workers. We do not expect every worker to be knowledgable on safety regulations, thus the Min. Of Industry can act as advisors to ensure that both parties are well informed and may act in their best interests. |
| Date | 02:56:36, December 03, 2006 CET | From | Malivia Democratic Party | To | Debating the Workplace Safety Act |
| Message | I support this. Companies , if left to their own devices..will often put profits ahead of health and safety of its workers. |
| Date | 18:48:45, December 03, 2006 CET | From | Protectorate Party | To | Debating the Workplace Safety Act |
| Message | We currently have labour unions for every workplace, thus companies are not left to their own devices. Workers are the best at determining which regulations are not effective at a workplace thus they should be the ones who set them. |
| Date | 13:37:59, December 04, 2006 CET | From | Leftsocialist Party | To | Debating the Workplace Safety Act |
| Message | We support. A system that has both unions and health and safety inspections is more effective than a system with only one of the above. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 153 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 47 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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