Workers' Bill of Rights Bill (Law'd)

[Smid]

If a business cannot profitably support the number of employees it has at the minimum living wage level, it shouldn't fall on the government to prop up the business. Small businesses need to make sound staffing decisions based on expected earnings and if businesses don't make good decisions, they shouldn't rely on government hand-outs. It would be easily abusable with business owners hiring family members, and using the government assistance to pay them.

[Smid]

     What about my amendment?

     To be inserted in Section 1:

2. All decisions made by the OAL shall be rendered by a panel consisting of three members, one each from a party officially identified as left-wing, a party officially identified as centrist, and a party officially identified as rightist. The determination of a major party's political leanings shall be made by the Secretary of Forum Affairs with the consent of that party's chairman.

3. If no major party exists to fill one of the seats on the panel, an independent or minor-party member may be empanelled with the approval of three-quarters of the Senate.

     The current clauses 2 & 3 of section 1 shall accordingly be renumbered clauses 4 & 5.

     Offered as friendly.

We did something similar in Australia for assessing minimum wage increases - The Fair Pay Commission. The various commissioners came from various walks of life: a unionist, an economist, a business representative, (if they all walked into a bar, it would probably be a joke).

http://www.fairpay.gov.au/fairpay/AboutCommission/

[Smid]

Aye.