Minimum Wage Policy Amendment of 2021 - Matterhorn

Rationale

A basic minimum wage protects workers from exploitation and boosts local economies by ensuring fair pay and increased consumer spending.

Proposed Changes

	Law	Previous		Proposed
1	Minimum Wage Policy	No minimum wage		Basic minimum wage

1

Minimum Wage Policy

Previous law

No minimum wage

Basic minimum wage

Proposer

Party

Democratic Socialist Union

A party of builders workers and dreamers stitching together a future where no one is left behind and the planet thrives.

Core pillars

Ludwig Weber

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Timeline

Draft

18 June 2021
Vote Open

18 June 2021
Vote Closed

17 August 2021
Did Not Become Law

17 August 2021

Vote tally

Live tally across each chamber. Weighted by seats held.

Bundesrat

Failed

2Yes 5No 0Not voted 7 seats

For: 2 / 7 seats (28.6%)

Against: 5 · Abstained: 0 · Not voted: 0

50.1% of those voting must vote in favour (actual = 28.6%)

Party	Seats	Vote	Reason
Conservative Movement	3	No	Your minimum wage decrees are a Marxist scam signed by incompetents who have never managed a single business in their lives. Believing that you can enrich a country by decreeing your bureaucratic edicts amounts to collective lobotomy. By trying to impose your egalitarian straitjacket, you, the pyromaniacs of socialism, are going to pulverize small businesses, massacre youth employment, and throw thousands of workers onto the unemployment lines. It is the triumph of your sheltered-bureaucrat ideology over the harsh reality of the ground. Your two-bit dogmatism is an economy-destroying machine. We vote no to your bureaucratic poison!
Democratic Socialist Union Proposer	2	Yes	No reason given
Reformist League Of Matterhorn	2	No	Completely unnecessary when we can encourage union membership to form strong unions that can then negotiate their own minimum wages with employers, with complete business freedom without the state dictating wages. Of course, this is more beneficial than proposing a universal mandatory minimum wage

Ständerat

Passed

25Yes 21No 0Not voted 46 seats

For: 25 / 46 seats (54.3%)

Against: 21 · Abstained: 0 · Not voted: 0

50.1% of those voting must vote in favour (actual = 54.3%)

Party	Seats	Vote	Reason
Conservative Movement	13	No	Your minimum wage decrees are a Marxist scam signed by incompetents who have never managed a single business in their lives. Believing that you can enrich a country by decreeing your bureaucratic edicts amounts to collective lobotomy. By trying to impose your egalitarian straitjacket, you, the pyromaniacs of socialism, are going to pulverize small businesses, massacre youth employment, and throw thousands of workers onto the unemployment lines. It is the triumph of your sheltered-bureaucrat ideology over the harsh reality of the ground. Your two-bit dogmatism is an economy-destroying machine. We vote no to your bureaucratic poison!
Democratic Socialist Union Proposer	25	Yes	No reason given
Reformist League Of Matterhorn	8	No	Completely unnecessary when we can encourage union membership to form strong unions that can then negotiate their own minimum wages with employers, with complete business freedom without the state dictating wages. Of course, this is more beneficial than proposing a universal mandatory minimum wage

Nationalrat

Passed

108Yes 92No 0Not voted 200 seats

For: 108 / 200 seats (54.0%)

Against: 92 · Abstained: 0 · Not voted: 0

50.1% of those voting must vote in favour (actual = 54.0%)

Party	Seats	Vote	Reason
Conservative Movement	56	No	Your minimum wage decrees are a Marxist scam signed by incompetents who have never managed a single business in their lives. Believing that you can enrich a country by decreeing your bureaucratic edicts amounts to collective lobotomy. By trying to impose your egalitarian straitjacket, you, the pyromaniacs of socialism, are going to pulverize small businesses, massacre youth employment, and throw thousands of workers onto the unemployment lines. It is the triumph of your sheltered-bureaucrat ideology over the harsh reality of the ground. Your two-bit dogmatism is an economy-destroying machine. We vote no to your bureaucratic poison!
Democratic Socialist Union Proposer	108	Yes	No reason given
Reformist League Of Matterhorn	36	No	Completely unnecessary when we can encourage union membership to form strong unions that can then negotiate their own minimum wages with employers, with complete business freedom without the state dictating wages. Of course, this is more beneficial than proposing a universal mandatory minimum wage

Voting record

Every vote must state a public reason. Most recent first.

R

Reformist League Of Matterhorn

Voted July 16, 2021

No

“Completely unnecessary when we can encourage union membership to form strong unions that can then negotiate their own minimum wages with employers, with complete business freedom without the state dictating wages. Of course, this is more beneficial than proposing a universal mandatory minimum wage”

Conservative Movement

Voted June 20, 2021

No

“Your minimum wage decrees are a Marxist scam signed by incompetents who have never managed a single business in their lives. Believing that you can enrich a country by decreeing your bureaucratic edicts amounts to collective lobotomy. By trying to impose your egalitarian straitjacket, you, the pyromaniacs of socialism, are going to pulverize small businesses, massacre youth employment, and throw thousands of workers onto the unemployment lines. It is the triumph of your sheltered-bureaucrat ideology over the harsh reality of the ground. Your two-bit dogmatism is an economy-destroying machine. We vote no to your bureaucratic poison!”