Ice Hockey Players
10-08-2006, 18:43
I proposed a replacement earlier for The 40 Hour Work Week, and it was shot down for, basically, trying to do too much and leaving things out. What I want this proposal to do is:
--Establish the work week at 40 hours. That's 40 EARTH hours, and I want to close any loopholes from some joker, pro-business lots that attempt to re-define the hour as "however long your boss says you work" as one nation tried to do.
--Establish that any hours worked beyond 40 hours in on week as being paid at 1.5 times the normal rate. Oh yeah, and that's an EARTH week as well.
--Establish that the hourly rate rule applies for those who are paid by the hour or by the day; those paid on salary are still subject to the standard 40-hour week, but exceptions can be made.
--Require that hourly and daily workers be paid at the normal rate for all time spent on-site as required by their jobs and for all time spent on-call; for those paid by salary, on-call requirements must be spelled out in writing when the job offer is extended, and any changes must be in writing as well.
--Requires that employees be compensated at their normal rate of pay for any time missed due to a documented medical condition or a death in the immediate family; pregnancy counts as a medical condition. The medical conditions I want to cover are those rendering a person physically unable to do their jobs through no fault of the employee's own. So if a person falls and breaks their arm, that counts; if a person stabs themselves, that doesn't.
Some issues that were brought up with the old draft:
--Exceptions were needed for emergency and traveling workers. For this, I could police officers, firefighters, emergency room personnel, and military personnel among emergency workers; for traveling workers, the ones most commonly brought up were fishermen, truck drivers, traveling salesmen...anyone I forgot? For them, it may be necessary to require that terms of employment, such as travel or emergency work, are spelled out in the employment agreement, and that hourly employees must be compensated properly for such time.
--Some people argue that it's micromanagement. It's not. If it were micromanagement, requirements far deeper than just standard labor rights would be laid out.
Some things that I wanted to include but may be better suited for a separate proposal:
--The payout of benefits. Ideally, I would want wither governments or employers to offer free health insurance, including medical, dental, and vision, to those who are full-time. However, a separate piece of legislation may be in order, as the current draft of Required Basic Healthcare is fairly toothless and just offers suggestions, not actual rules. UN resolutions are useless if they are suggestions.
--The requirement of a living wage. Ideally, as a rock-bottom minimum wage for full-time workers, a council should determine what the poverty line is in a nation in terms of currency per annum, divide it by 2000, multiply it by 1.5, and make it the minimum hourly wage.
EXAMPLE: If the poverty line in Ice Hockey Players is 12,000 pucks per annum, that translates to 6 pucks per hour, assuming one works 2,000 hours per year. Therefore, multiplying it by 1.5 means that the minimum hourly wage become 9 pucks per hour.
What am I missing? I want to draft something like this, but I want to cover all the bases first.
--Establish the work week at 40 hours. That's 40 EARTH hours, and I want to close any loopholes from some joker, pro-business lots that attempt to re-define the hour as "however long your boss says you work" as one nation tried to do.
--Establish that any hours worked beyond 40 hours in on week as being paid at 1.5 times the normal rate. Oh yeah, and that's an EARTH week as well.
--Establish that the hourly rate rule applies for those who are paid by the hour or by the day; those paid on salary are still subject to the standard 40-hour week, but exceptions can be made.
--Require that hourly and daily workers be paid at the normal rate for all time spent on-site as required by their jobs and for all time spent on-call; for those paid by salary, on-call requirements must be spelled out in writing when the job offer is extended, and any changes must be in writing as well.
--Requires that employees be compensated at their normal rate of pay for any time missed due to a documented medical condition or a death in the immediate family; pregnancy counts as a medical condition. The medical conditions I want to cover are those rendering a person physically unable to do their jobs through no fault of the employee's own. So if a person falls and breaks their arm, that counts; if a person stabs themselves, that doesn't.
Some issues that were brought up with the old draft:
--Exceptions were needed for emergency and traveling workers. For this, I could police officers, firefighters, emergency room personnel, and military personnel among emergency workers; for traveling workers, the ones most commonly brought up were fishermen, truck drivers, traveling salesmen...anyone I forgot? For them, it may be necessary to require that terms of employment, such as travel or emergency work, are spelled out in the employment agreement, and that hourly employees must be compensated properly for such time.
--Some people argue that it's micromanagement. It's not. If it were micromanagement, requirements far deeper than just standard labor rights would be laid out.
Some things that I wanted to include but may be better suited for a separate proposal:
--The payout of benefits. Ideally, I would want wither governments or employers to offer free health insurance, including medical, dental, and vision, to those who are full-time. However, a separate piece of legislation may be in order, as the current draft of Required Basic Healthcare is fairly toothless and just offers suggestions, not actual rules. UN resolutions are useless if they are suggestions.
--The requirement of a living wage. Ideally, as a rock-bottom minimum wage for full-time workers, a council should determine what the poverty line is in a nation in terms of currency per annum, divide it by 2000, multiply it by 1.5, and make it the minimum hourly wage.
EXAMPLE: If the poverty line in Ice Hockey Players is 12,000 pucks per annum, that translates to 6 pucks per hour, assuming one works 2,000 hours per year. Therefore, multiplying it by 1.5 means that the minimum hourly wage become 9 pucks per hour.
What am I missing? I want to draft something like this, but I want to cover all the bases first.