SENATE BILL: Long-term Unemployment Relief Act (Law'd)

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I don't like those current rates, to be honest; a $7.00 minimum wage in 2015 seems, well, low to me....

I'm going to unilaterally vote against this amendment, and along with my VP Cinci, we will offer our own rates and pray to Zeus that you all accept them.

You signed off on $6.55 and $7.25 for 2015, when we passed the law in question regarding the tipped employees back in December. In fact I recall that it was even a redraft.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Why is it when I PM people and ask them to gether and work out an agreement, I learn latter that nobody fing listend.

I wasn't remembering the need to deal with the tipped employee issue when I messaged Duke and Cinci about the minimum wage. 
Then when I went to write the amendment I remembered you mentioned it and was trying to submit an amendment quickly so the bill wouldn't linger, and wasn't thinking about messaging Duke and Cinci.

I told Duke about the issue and urged him to work out an agreement on that part too.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Vote on Amendment 60:64 by shua

Aye (5): DC al fine, Goldwater, Lumine, NC Yankee, and shua
Nay (5): Alfred F. Jones, bore, Talleyrand, TNF and TyriontheImperialist
Abstain (0):

Didn't Vote (0):

The vote is tied with time having expired and the VP needs to break the tie.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

If this does end up getting rejected, shua, do you still want the amendment you conditionally offered upon this one ending or do you prefer to wait until after this issue with the tipped employees is resolved?

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

THe amenment has been rejected.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

you mean this?

After the vote on that amendment, I'd like to offer this:

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yes, I want to go ahead and put this in, just renumbering it if need be.

I think it would be four in that case. I will used this as the linked text in the tracker.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

AYE

Hopefully by the time that this is done, Duke will be nearing availability to get a set of numbers for tipped employees that everyone is comfortable with.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

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4. It shall be the policy of the Atlasian Federal Government and all its agencies that any gap(s) in an applicant's employment shall not in itself be considered a basis for disqualification or nonconsideration for employment or contract
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[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

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4. Section 1 of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 2013 is repealed.

4 5. It shall be the policy of the Atlasian Federal Government and all its agencies that any gap(s) in an applicant's employment shall not in itself be considered a basis for disqualification or nonconsideration for employment or contract
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[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I think you guys should proceed with disgussing the tipped employees proposal then and that way once mine is concluded, we can address that and have this at vote early next week or even this weekend if everything goes as planned.


There may indeed need to be another bill on the minimum wage issue, but at the very least you had wanted to include a correction of FLSA's excesses in this and we already did the contract thing, I think we can at the very least deal with the main minimum wage as well.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I shall not stand to see this passed, and will fight with every breath in my body against Sen. Yankee's crusade against the working class.

I shall not stand to see these vicious attacks go unchallenged Senator Alfred. I at least don't think that it is possible to escape the laws of economics simply by slapping the word working class all over the idea in the hopes that repetition will breed truth.

I might be up for preserving clauses 1 and 2, but the rest of it has got to go. This body has changed the minimum wage every year and some cases more then once per year for every year that I have been here.

I also think that Marokai, Snowstalker, and Napoleon would love to know that they are likewise engaging in a crusade against workers.

I have a long record of pushing for a living wage. However, there is a smart way and a stupid way to go about it and I think I have done my best to ensure it was done in a smart a way as possible with the least expense on jobs.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

There are more moving parts then I recalled being in Section of FLSA, therefore I am withdrawing my current amendment and offering this one.

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4. Section 1, clauses 3-5 of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 2013 are repealed with the remaining clauses renumbered accordingly. The words in the new clause three (formerly clause six), "the latter" shall be replaced with the words "the increase in worker productivity"

4 5. It shall be the policy of the Atlasian Federal Government and all its agencies that any gap(s) in an applicant's employment shall not in itself be considered a basis for disqualification or nonconsideration for employment or contract
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[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I don't understand what you are doing Yankee.
Why are you inserting something in the final clause about increases in worker productivity?  

Tying the minimum wage to increases in productivity is just sick in my view, and the absolute worst part of our minimum wage law.  It means that those increases cannot be used to expand and hire new workers. It also means that those businesses without the capital investments that lead to greater productivity are put at further disadvantage - they haven't increased productivity, but still they have to pay the higher labor costs.  

I am narrowing the focus of the change to just clause three through five. That is already in the FLSA, I am just moving it since I am removing clauses 4 and 5, which it uses to create such by way of a subsequent refference. Primarily because you had cast doubt on the practicality of addressing this issue in this bill, so I went with the more narrow approach and minimized the amount of controverisal changes to the law in question based on what you stated you desired with regards to the bill.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

If you prefer, I will make it 3-6 instead of 3-5, shua.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

If you prefer, I will make it 3-6 instead of 3-5, shua.

I would prefer that. 

I was thinking "the latter" was a reference to "national cost of living."  It's not very clear.   

You know something, that is probably what it is suppose to be and I totally misread it myself.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Amendment Withdrawn, again.

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4. Section 1, clauses 3-6 of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 2013 are repealed with the remaining clauses renumbered accordingly.

4 5. It shall be the policy of the Atlasian Federal Government and all its agencies that any gap(s) in an applicant's employment shall not in itself be considered a basis for disqualification or nonconsideration for employment or contract
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[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

None of the wages in question have gone into effect yet, man.

I support a living wage indexed to inflation, it is hardly an attack on living standards just because I prefer to keep in text the other key variables of employment (hence my actions here) and the localized conditions relative to such (hence my support for Right Wages for Right Regions back two years ago) in consideration when enacting such a policy.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

AYE


Enthusiasm is good, its healthy.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Vote on Amendment 61:01 by NC Yankee

Aye (4): DC al Fine, Goldwater, NC Yankee and shua
Nay (3): bore, TNF and TyrionthEImperialist
Abstain (0):

Didn't Vote (3): Adam Griffin, Alfred F. Jones and Lumine

The amendment has been adopted.

Duke? Cincy? Where are we with the Tipped section?

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

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4. Section 1, clauses 3-6 of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 2013 are repealed with the remaining clauses renumbered accordingly.

5. Section 4 of The Productivity Equalization and Worker Employment Act of 2011 is amended as follows:

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2. The minimum wage for tipped employees shall, upon the passage of this legislation, automatically adjust for increases in worker productivity and inflation at the same rate as does the regular federal minimum wage. The previous chart shall not be construed to deny a minimum wage adjustment based on inflation or increases in productivity to any employee.

3. The scaled increase to the minimum wage for tipped employees, as noted in Section 1 shall expire on January 1, 20202018 and the tipped minimum wage shall, at that point, be equalized to the regular federal minimum wage. There shall, from January 1, 20202018, be no difference in the federal minimum wage for tipped and other employees.

4. From the period between January 1, 2014 to January 1, 2020, tipped employees may 'opt-out' of the compensation adjustment for tipped employees. In doing so, tipped employees shall be paid the previous federal minimum wage for tipped employees until the next scheduled increase, at which point they will be once again asked whether or not to 'opt-out' of it.
   4a. Tipped employees having opted out of the compensation adjustment schedule shall be paid a gratuity of 20 percent automatically charged on all purchases by any employer employing tipped employees foregoing the compensation adjustment schedule.
   4b. Effective January 1, 2020, the opt-out provision of this law and the automatic gratuity charge shall be terminated and all employees currently paid in tips instead paid the federal minimum wage.
   4c. Employers may not be deny the right of employees to opt in or out of a tipped compensation program. Denying a worker such a right is punishable by law and may result in the loss of one’s business license and/or a fine of up to $25,000 per denied employee.
   4d. Employers and employees must indicate the form of compensation on tax documents from any jurisdiction. All jurisdictions must recognize both forms of compensation for currently tipped employees.

5. Restaurants shall not charge a service charge exceeding 15% on services rendered by employees who have opted in to the compensation adjustment program.
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5.6. It shall be the policy of the Atlasian Federal Government and all its agencies that any gap(s) in an applicant's employment shall not in itself be considered a basis for disqualification or nonconsideration for employment or contract
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[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

AYE

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Vote on Amendment 61:15 by shua:

Aye (4): DC al Fine, Goldwater, NC Yankee and shua
Nay (5): Adam Griffin, Alfred F. Jones, bore, TNF and TyriontheImperialist
Abstain (0):

Didn't Vote (1): Lumine

The amendment has been rejected.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

AYE

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

This now has just two days left.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Can we extend the time limits for this?

Why do you ask, every Senator has voted?

There used to be extensions but I think we removed them a few months ago since they were never used that I recall in the past four or five years.