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Constitutional Bill on workplace organisations

Hybrid Constitutional Bill Repealing the Act on suspending anti-trust Laws and Establishing legal grounds for labour, housing and environmental reform


Independent Agency for Documentation:Department of OPAL

Prepared by: Ayala Moran


Accreditation:

  • Supreme Court of the Grand Duchy of Nasphilitae. Approved
  • High Court for Financial Crime. Approved
  • High Court for Administrative Crime. Divided
  • Author: Head of HM Shadow Cabinet (Nowell Riley Trenton)
  • Grand Duke and Head of State of the Grand Duchy of Nasphilitae (High Duke Dawson Ernst) – Willing to Royal assent

Category: Constitutional, Hybrid, Repeal.

Date of Enforcement: N/A

Date of First Draft Bill: 16.05.2024.

Date of Second reading and Lower House voting: 20.05.2024. | 21.05.2024.

Date of Upper House voting or Plenary Commission Re-Drafting final Bill: 23.05.2024. | 24.05.2024.


Dispositive: Repeals “Act on suspeding anti-trust laws” of 2012. Appeals "Act enforcing anti-trust laws (1902., 1920., 1941., 1982). Establishes legal framework for organisation within public and private lucrative entities. Establishes procedures for guaranteeing labour and housing rights. Mandates the establishment of High Chancellory organisations for executive oversight and environmental reform. Establishes Association of Unions on a national level. Establishes Association of Investors and Owners on a national level. Mandates establishing the State Office of Labour on a national level. Mandates establishing the Research Department for Environmental Standardisation and Inspection on a national level.


CONTENTS:

  1. Chapter I: Principles
  2. Chapter II: Repeal of Act on suspending anti-trust laws
  3. Chapter III: Mandating Association of Unions
  4. Chapter IV: Mandating Association of Investors and Owners
  5. Chapter V: Constituting State Office of Labour
  6. Chapter VI: Appending duties of lucrative entities
  7. Chapter VII: Appending duties of lucrative entities in environmental and ecological restructions

Chapter I: Principles

§ Guided by the goals of: Deregulation, Debureaucratisation, Detechnocratisation, Democratisation, and Decentralisation; this legislation seeks to re-organise workforce procedures in-line with the betterment of livign standards for all citizens.
§ Re-inforces the appealment anti-trust laws to the standards of the 1982. amendment.
§ Provides representation of employees and restructures Union organisations.
§ Provides representation of employers and introduces organisations for owners and investors within the workforce.
§ Provides Civil Service institutions and protocols for mediation and consolidation between employees and employers.
§ Provides Civil Service institutions and protocols for oversight and enforcement of environmental reforms.


Repeal of Act on suspending anti-trust laws

§ Annulls disallowance exemption to anti-trust laws.
¶ Repeal of the “Act on suspendig anti-trust laws” from 2012.
¶ Appeal of the “Act enforcing anti-trust laws” in accordance to the 1982. amendments.
¶ This legislation applies to circumstances as they arise.
¶ This legislation does not have retrospective effect and as such may not be interpreted in an instrumental manner against violators of the appealled Act in the time of 2012-2024.

Mandating Association of Unions

§ Mandates to existing Unions the creation of Association of Unions.
¶ This legislation mandates to all existing Unions the action of introducing the Association of Unions.
¶ Introduction of and codnuct therein of the Association must be in-line with all existing national legislation of the same scope and coverage.
¶ The introduction must be convened in-line with existing statutory rules.

§ Structure of the Association of Unions
¶ Employees of a particular workplace facility (hereby workplace) are to be members of affiliated Associations’ sub-organization.
¶ Employees of a Locality or Urban Districts are elected representatives of the aforementioned affiliate.
¶ First Order Association of Unions are to consist of members of Chief representatives elected in respective Localities or Urban Districts among the aforementioned representatives.
¶ First Order Associations are to be comprised along Regional and Urban Council demarcations.
¶ First Order Associations are to elect among themselves 100 Chief Delegates which constitute the Second Order Association of Unions.

Mandating Association of Investors and Owners

§ Mandates to existing Unions the creation of Association of Investors and Owners.
¶ This legislation mandates to all Investors and Owners the action of introducing the Association of Investors and Owners.
¶ Introduction of and codnuct therein of the Association must be in-line with all existing national legislation of the same scope and coverage.
¶ The introduction must be convened in-line with existing statutory rules.

§ Structure of the Association of Investors and Owners
¶ Employers and Share-holders of a particular workplace facility (hereby workplace) are to be members of affiliated Associations’ sub-organization.
¶ Employers and Share-holders of a Locality or Urban Districts are elected representatives of the aforementioned affiliate.
¶ First Order Association of Unions are to consist of members of Chief representatives elected in respective Localities or Urban Districts among the aforementioned representatives.
¶ First Order Associations are to be comprised along Regional and Urban Council demarcations.
¶ First Order Associations are to elect among themselves 100 Chief Delegates which constitute the Second Order Association of Unions.

Constituting State Office of Labour

§ Instructs the creation of hybrid instruments for the administrative oversight of this legislation
¶ The Lord High Chancellor of the Grand Duchy of Nasphilitae is to establish the Department of Labour headed by a High Officer appointed by the Secretary of State.
¶ The High Officer of the Department of Labour is to oversee the appropriate establishment of the State Office of Labour.
¶ The State Office of Labour is tasked to mediate disagreements between the Second Orders of Associations of Union and of Investors and Owners (hereby “the Associations”).

§ Defines scope and coverage of the State Office of Labour
¶ The State Office of Labour is tasked with operatioal oversight within each workplace of Nasphilitae for the purposes of consolidation, economic resolution of discrepancies, fair working conditions, proper environmental equipment, swift employment procedures, and effective production methods.
¶ The State Office of Labour is free to organise its’ internal bodies as it sees fit, limited within the goal of efficiently conducting its’ tasks.

Appending duties of lucrative entities

§ Providing legal mechanisms for guaranteeing the right to employment and life via lucrative entities’ duties.
¶ All lucrative entities must provide clear criteria for employment.
¶ Applicants which fulfill the criteria enjoy freedom from further scrutiny in the form of non-work related inquiry; whether conducted by interview questions outside the scope relevant to the mattr or by specific departments of Human Resources, prior to employment.
¶ State lucrative entities must provide living wages to all employees, set by agreement between the Associations within a specific workplace.
¶ State and Public lucrative entities must provide free access to paid vacation days, paid leaves, assistance to impoverished families of their workforce, and humane housing conditions for all in their workforce.
¶ Budget for humane housing conditions is to be determined by negotiated agreement between the Associations on each Regional level.
¶ All pensions in the Grand Duchy of Nasphilitae are to be re-adjusted two times annually, as to account for inflantory changes.

Appending duties of lucrative entities in environmental and ecological restructions

§ The following provisions are to be effective as of different date than other provisions set by this legislation.
¶ Provisions of Chapter VII are to be effective partially as of November 15. 2024.
¶ Provisionns of Chapter VII are to be fully effective as of February 15. 2024.
¶ By November 15. 2024., entities not adhering to environmental and ecological standards are to be subject to excise flat to 10% of their revenue.
¶ As of February 15. 2024., entities not adhering to environmental and ecological standards are to be set under economic administration of the State Office of Labour.

§ Instructs the establishment of Research Department for Environmental Standardication and Inspection within the Department of Labour.
¶ The Department of Labour, in conjunction with its State Offices, are to create a professional Research Department for Environmental Standardication and Inspection (hereby the RDESI).
¶ The RDESI is tasked with the creation of clear and effective technical criteria, in the aim of ecological depollution, for each Industrial branch.
¶ Criteria is to be listed and completed within two weeks of this Act coming to force.
¶ The Department of Labour and the RDESI are tasked with executive scrutiny over investigations during inspections of each workplace, as to ensure that such criteria have been introduced.


Lower House In Favour (Total Votes): 0
Lower House Against (Total Votes): 0
Lower House Active Abstains (Total Votes): 0

Upper House In Favour (Total Votes): 0
Upper House Against (Total Votes): 0
Upper House Active Abstains (Total Votes): 0


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