[DRAFT] The Right To Organize And Collectively Bargain

[Elizabeth Isles]

The World Assembly hereby declares;

Article 1: The Rights of Workers
1) All employees shall have the right to organize, and no government shall infringe upon that right.
2) All employees shall have the right to a pension, so that once they retire, they do not starve.
3) All employees have the right to a living wage, in order to live a dignified life

Article 2: The Expectations of Employers
1) Multinational corporations will be required to reserve 50% of company board seats for women in order to further the goals of gender equality in the workplace
2) Employers will henceforth be barred from firing their employees without providing a good reason to government authorities
3) Employers shall henceforth be barred from racially discriminating against employees
- Elizabeth Isles

[Stellar Colonies]

1) Multinational corporations will be required to reserve 50% of company board seats for women in order to further the goals of gender equality in the workplace

OOC: Not a member of the WA, but shouldn't board seats be focused on skill, rather than what gender you are? I get that you are trying to further gender equality and that's good, but it could potentially be harmful to favor unskilled people over skilled ones merely because of a gender. (Not saying that one gender is intrinsically better, just referring to some possible situations)

[Separatist Peoples]

OOC: This starts out in employment law and moves into business association structure. It should not do that.

[Araraukar]

OOC post: Category and strength/AoE?

Article 1: The Rights of Workers
1) All employees shall have the right to organize, and no government shall infringe upon that right.

Isn't there already a resolution that does this?

2) All employees shall have the right to a pension, so that once they retire, they do not starve.
3) All employees have the right to a living wage, in order to live a dignified life

They wouldn't starve anyway, there's the Minimum Standards of Living resolution. "Dignified" is very much a matter of opinion, though.

Article 2: The Expectations of Employers
1) Multinational corporations will be required to reserve 50% of company board seats for women in order to further the goals of gender equality in the workplace

You're banned from discriminating against people based on their gender. That means you can't favour women just because they're women. Also, there are more than just 2 genders, so a 50-50 split would be discriminatory anyway.

2) Employers will henceforth be barred from firing their employees without providing a good reason to government authorities

...why should they bother the government with it? Just have that rule exist and punish those that fire people willy-nilly.

3) Employers shall henceforth be barred from racially discriminating against employees

Already forbidden, like gender discrimination. Check out the Charter of Civil Rights resolution.

- Elizabeth Isles

Putting this in will make your proposal illegal for Branding.

[Bears Armed]

Also, GA resolutions can only affect the WA's member nations so placing requirements on Multinationals' board membership like that probably has to be limited to Multinationals whose head offices are in member nations.

[Imperial Polk County]

"Against. A pension policy is what killed the postal service, and I would not want to see such a burden placed on small companies and corporations. Encouraging employees to participate in tax-deferred plans is a much better route."

[Imperium Anglorum]

A pension policy is what killed the postal service,

Well, it wasn't the pension per se. It was the size of those pensions.

[Imperium Anglorum]

OOC: I hate to do line by lines with broken up quotes. So, the following are comments on the draft, my comments in maroon, I guess, in character on the margins.

The World Assembly hereby declares;

Article 1: The Rights of Workers
1) All employees shall have the right to organize, and no government shall infringe upon that right. The World Assembly already has legislation guaranteeing the right to collectively bargain. I also don't think people understand the nature of collective bargaining. It isn't like the firm must deal with the union. Firms too have the ability to reject union proposals and hire other people. Strikes are not credible when there is reserve labour.

2) All employees shall have the right to a pension, so that once they retire, they do not starve. This doesn't mean anything in that I can give you a pension of 1 cent. Or, if the standard is non-starvation, a pension covering just that. Anyway, pension obligations are a strong reason why many formerly large firms are now unprofitable. Fundamentally, a pension is the equivalent of taking out a loan on payroll, can be discarded anyway in bankruptcy. In the end, this doesn't mean much.

3) All employees have the right to a living wage, in order to live a dignified life What is a living wage? And what about the effects on employment? What about the reduction in employment caused by those higher institutional wages and the increased number of unemployed? What about developing countries which rely on their labour surpluses to grow their economies?

Article 2: The Expectations of Employers
1) Multinational corporations will be required to reserve 50% of company board seats for women in order to further the goals of gender equality in the workplace This is a dreadful policy, for reasons already mentioned.

2) Employers will henceforth be barred from firing their employees without providing a good reason to government authorities Then they won't hire them, for fear of underperformance (or reduction in performance after becoming permanent. This is part of why many European countries have extremely high youth unemployment, which has significant impacts on youth savings and long-term jobs prospects.

3) Employers shall henceforth be barred from racially discriminating against employees They are already prohibited from doing so by GA 35 'Charter of Civil Rights'.

- Elizabeth Isles Remove this line.

[The Greater Siriusian Domain]

The World Assembly hereby declares;

Teran Saber: "As much as I like getting straight to the point, I don't think you're going to convince people to vote for this without at least an explanation in the preamble."

OOC: Also, category and strength?

Article 1: The Rights of Workers
1) All employees shall have the right to organize, and no government shall infringe upon that right.

Teran Saber: "There is already legislation covering this."

2) All employees shall have the right to a pension, so that once they retire, they do not starve.

"Too open-ended. You could pay someone a pension of one lolcatzcoin (OOC: Siriusian equivalent to Dogecoin, a super low value inflationary cryptocurrency intended to be used for small transactions). It's not like someone can live off of that."

3) All employees have the right to a living wage, in order to live a dignified life

"What do you mean by a living wage? Do you mean enough to be able to have a place to live, food and clean clothes, or enough to also have some spending money? Is that including or not including government-funded safety nets? What if the company already provided food and housing, like the rail barons of the 19th and early 20th century United States? And if that's taken into account, what if the company provisions weren't sufficient?"

Article 2: The Expectations of Employers
1) Multinational corporations will be required to reserve 50% of company board seats for women in order to further the goals of gender equality in the workplace

"Existing legislation bans discrimination based on gender. INCLUDING 'positive' discrimination. Additionally, this could potentially result in a female majority in nations that recognize more than two genders, and would be completely non-viable in nations that don't recognize gender or are single-gendered or non-gendered to begin with due to physiology, culture, etc."

OOC: Illegal for contradicting existing legislation.

2) Employers will henceforth be barred from firing their employees without providing a good reason to government authorities

Teran Saber: "Unnecessary bureaucracy. As Araraukar stated, just have the rule and punish employers that fire employees excessively."

3) Employers shall henceforth be barred from racially discriminating against employees

"The same legislation that bans gender discrimination also bans racial discrimination."

OOC: Illegal for duplicating existing legislation.

- Elizabeth Isles

Teran Saber: "Do you see this as a way to stroke your nation's ego?"

OOC: Illegal for branding.

[Aclion]

For reference Minimum Standard of Living Act, The Charter of Civil Rights, National Economic Freedoms, WA Labor Relations Act,

[Oakrugia]

This person had just wrote this the day she joined. I'd advise her to improve her points on her legislation skills and really take the people's notes and criticism carefully. Or else, she'll probably have to abandon this.