SENATE BILL: Fair Labor Standards Act of 2013 (Redraft at Vote)

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

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[tmthforu94]

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[TNF]

Friendly, on the assumption that this change will get this bill to a bill sooner rather than later.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

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Status: Senators have 24 hours to object.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

The amendment has been adopted.


Since it has been a good two days since the last amendment was offered I am going to go ahead and open a final vote here. 

This bill is now at final vote, Senators please vote Aye, Nay or Abstain.

[President Tyrion]

Aye

[TNF]

Aye

[Maxwell]

Nay

[President Tyrion]

Aye

[Senator Spiral]

Nay

[Хahar 🤔]

Yea

[tmthforu94]

Nay, only due to section seven.

[bore]

Aye

[Gass3268]

Aye

[Napoleon]

Aye

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Nay but with reluctance.

I like most of what is in this, but I think this intership business might only serve to deprive people of experience and thus keep them out of better paying jobs.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Matt you can call 24 hours on vote changes here.

[Sopranos Republican]

Senators, you have 24 hours to change your votes on this bill.

(I'll add the roll call counts this afternoon.)

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

I think ridding ourselves of unpaid internships may do more harm than good. Most of these companies will merely eliminate them rather than actually paying their interns when given the choice, which in turn will only hurt students opportunities to gain experience. I worked an unpaid internship two summers ago, and there is no way they would have hired me if it had been paid, but the experience I gained that summer was irreplaceable.

I understand this is a controversy, especially because of the recent death this summer, but I don't want us to overreact. These unpaid internships can benefit one's career immensely. I don't want to see that go away. I want to give people more opportunities, not less, and this will not help our already high unemployment.

Otherwise I'm fine with this bill.

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

If there is a way to enforce "assigning meaningful work" and the like, and someone knows how to legislate that, I am all for it. Otherwise, it will just add a toothless mandate to the legislation.

I do support the rest of this bill, but I will wield my veto pen as long as section 7 remains in it. I think it will cause far more harm than good.

Let the attacks commence...

[Gass3268]

If there is a way to enforce "assigning meaningful work" and the like, and someone knows how to legislate that, I am all for it. Otherwise, it will just add a toothless mandate to the legislation.

I do support the rest of this bill, but I will wield my veto pen as long as section 7 remains in it. I think it will cause far more harm than good.

Let the attacks commence...

You suck!

Is your issue just with the internship parts of section 7 or the entirety of the section? I reluctantly would be okay removing the parts on unpaid internships, but I would not be down with removing the parts on prison labor. 

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

If there is a way to enforce "assigning meaningful work" and the like, and someone knows how to legislate that, I am all for it. Otherwise, it will just add a toothless mandate to the legislation.

I do support the rest of this bill, but I will wield my veto pen as long as section 7 remains in it. I think it will cause far more harm than good.

Let the attacks commence...

You suck!

Is your issue just with the internship parts of section 7 or the entirety of the section? I reluctantly would be okay removing the parts on unpaid internships, but I would not be down with removing the parts on prison labor. 

My only beef is with the internship portion. I'm fine with prison compensation.

I know I suck, but hopefully I suck a little less with that response.

[President Tyrion]

The basic income guarantee does change the manner by which we should approach unpaid internships. I oppose them because they generally can't go to poorer people, since they couldn't afford not to be paid. The BIG changes that somewhat. I would support a redraft.

[TNF]

This bill was written before Nixcome was law. I would support a redraft altering the portion as far as unpaid internships are concerned now that Nixcome is in effect.

[Maxwell]

Yeah we have a deficit now that is around $150 Billion.