Post by allers on Jun 9, 2005 4:51:50 GMT -5
Global Fair Employment Act
A resolution to reduce income inequality and increase basic welfare.
Category: Social Justice
Strength: Significant
Proposed by: Ginnoria
Description: The United Nations,
RECOGNIZING the abuses of third-world labor by multinational corporations, which reslut in the establishment of 'sweatshops' where the workers are delibrately kept in poverty and abused of their human rights,
ASSERTING that said corporate interests operate outside their national base so as to evade the local laws prohibiting the unfair treatment of their laborers,
DEFINING a 'living wage' as the minimum amount of money, offered in exchange for a regular service to the employer, that the employee requires to provide the employee and the employee's dependent family with the basic human rights detailed by the United Nations,
AVERRING that corporate business interests, in monopolizing the job markets of impoverished nations, often delibrately pay their employees (the residents of said nations) wages reduced from a living wage, forcing them to forgo basic necessities of a dignified life, such as adequate sustenance and shelter in order to increase corporate profits,
REQUIRE that all business entities operating within any member nation must pay their employees, regardless of their location, citizenship, or original nationality, a living wage and ensure that their work and working conditions are in compliance with the basic human rights that the United Nations have previously determined,
and REQUIRE FUTHER that if any such entities based elsewhere desire to do business or operate within a member nation, the member nation in question must stipulate that they comply with the Global Fair Employment Act.
Approvals: 20 (Krigerania, Gaiah, Seattletonia, Rolling Stone, Republic of Freedonia, Utopian Id, Real Paradise, Vrone, Funkdunk, Of Cascadia, Serene Forests, The Bruce, Juna Esperantisto, The Killer Snowmen, Neo Mata Nui, Xarvinia-Wurtemburg, Ginnoria, Shikyrie, Veksar, Einerland)
Status: Lacking Support (requires 129 more approvals)
Voting Ends: Fri Jun 10 2005
A resolution to reduce income inequality and increase basic welfare.
Category: Social Justice
Strength: Significant
Proposed by: Ginnoria
Description: The United Nations,
RECOGNIZING the abuses of third-world labor by multinational corporations, which reslut in the establishment of 'sweatshops' where the workers are delibrately kept in poverty and abused of their human rights,
ASSERTING that said corporate interests operate outside their national base so as to evade the local laws prohibiting the unfair treatment of their laborers,
DEFINING a 'living wage' as the minimum amount of money, offered in exchange for a regular service to the employer, that the employee requires to provide the employee and the employee's dependent family with the basic human rights detailed by the United Nations,
AVERRING that corporate business interests, in monopolizing the job markets of impoverished nations, often delibrately pay their employees (the residents of said nations) wages reduced from a living wage, forcing them to forgo basic necessities of a dignified life, such as adequate sustenance and shelter in order to increase corporate profits,
REQUIRE that all business entities operating within any member nation must pay their employees, regardless of their location, citizenship, or original nationality, a living wage and ensure that their work and working conditions are in compliance with the basic human rights that the United Nations have previously determined,
and REQUIRE FUTHER that if any such entities based elsewhere desire to do business or operate within a member nation, the member nation in question must stipulate that they comply with the Global Fair Employment Act.
Approvals: 20 (Krigerania, Gaiah, Seattletonia, Rolling Stone, Republic of Freedonia, Utopian Id, Real Paradise, Vrone, Funkdunk, Of Cascadia, Serene Forests, The Bruce, Juna Esperantisto, The Killer Snowmen, Neo Mata Nui, Xarvinia-Wurtemburg, Ginnoria, Shikyrie, Veksar, Einerland)
Status: Lacking Support (requires 129 more approvals)
Voting Ends: Fri Jun 10 2005