Particracy Forum

Law: The nation's policy on minimum wage regulation.
Section: Economics

Proposed addition: The government obligates Labour Unions and Organizations of Employers to negotiate a minimum wage

Effect: Same effect as 'The government obligates Trade Unions and Employers to negotiate the daily number of working hours' variable in the The government's policy towards the daily working hours law.

Name of the Law/Policy:Government policy towards labor unions
Law/Policy Category: Economics

Proposed additions:
1)Trade unions are not officially acknowledged but are allowed to exist
2) Only government run trade unions exist and membership in them is compulsory.

Effect:
1) Large decrease in regulation, large decrease in govt responsibilities
2) Large increase in govt responsibilities, large increase in regulation, large increase in restrictiveness

Name of the Law/Policy: Government policy towards alcoholic beverages
Law/Policy Category: Health

Proposed addition:
1)The State has a monopoly on the sale of alcoholic beverages.

Effect: Large increase in gov't responsibilities, large increase in regulation, large increase in centralisation

Reddy wrote:Law: Government policy towards labor unions
Section: Economics

Proposed additions:
1)Trade unions are not officially acknowledged but are allowed to exist
2) Only government run trade unions exist and membership is compulsory

Effect:
1) No effect (?)
2) Large increase in govt responsibilities, large increase in regulation, large increase in restrictiveness

I absolutely love this one.

I like them, but I'm not sure to understand the first one. Minimum wage would be negociated between the unions and employers at a kind of national summit, and not decided by the government?

Arizal1 wrote:I like them, but I'm not sure to understand the first one. Minimum wage would be negociated between the unions and employers at a kind of national summit, and not decided by the government?

Yes, just like daily working hours.

Arizal1 wrote:I like them, but I'm not sure to understand the first one. Minimum wage would be negociated between the unions and employers at a kind of national summit, and not decided by the government?

Yes just like Siggon said. It would allow tripartism which is common in the Benelux and Nordic countries and any other country where consensus is valued over confrontation as you get in the Anglo-Saxon economic model.

Reddy wrote:

Arizal1 wrote:I like them, but I'm not sure to understand the first one. Minimum wage would be negociated between the unions and employers at a kind of national summit, and not decided by the government?

Yes just like Siggon said. It would allow tripartism which is common in the Benelux and Nordic countries and any other country where consensus is valued over confrontation as you get in the Anglo-Saxon economic model.

Strange, I see this rather as corporatism : the government pressuring those partners for them to achieve an agreement without involving him too much. Still, I like this model of State as last resort.

Arizal1 wrote:Strange, I see this rather as corporatism : the government pressuring those partners for them to achieve an agreement without involving him too much. Still, I like this model of State as last resort.

Not that strange at all , tripartism is often a key ingredient of corporatism. As (an increasingly economically liberal) corporatist, I've always wanted to see corporatism as a real option in the economic laws so I've been thinking of proposing laws on incomes policy, co-determination, price controls, export subsidies etc.

Name of the Law/Policy: The legality of divorces
Law/Policy Category: Civil Liberties

Proposed addition:
1)Only divorces that comply with religious doctrine are legal.

Effect: Large increase in fanaticism, large increase in conservatism, large increase in restrictiveness