Bill: Rejected Affordable Employment Act

[Unitymaster]

A
BILL
To​

Elevate employers of Redmont.
The people of Democracy Craft, through their elected representatives in the Congress and the force of law ordained to that Congress by the people through the constitution, do hereby enact the following provisions into law:

1 - Short Title and Enactment
(1) This Act may be cited as the “The Affordable Employment Act”.
(2) This Act shall be enacted immediately.
(3) This Act was authored by Representative UnityMaster.

2 - Reasons
(1) It is increasingly difficult to grow a small business.

3 - Terms
(1)This act shall add a business grant to be used exclusively for employment.
(2)A business must be registered for over 28 days to be eligible for this grant.
(3)Eligible businesses may apply for the grant once per 28 days.
(4)Businesses are to apply on the forums using the grant format:
“Amount Requested:
What will you use this grant for?”

-1st Benefit: Company must have less than $3,000 value and 1-2 employees to be eligible for a <$2,250 grant.
-2nd Benefit: Company must have less than $7,500 value and 2-4 employees to be eligible for a <$4,250 grant.
-3rd Benefit: Company must have less than $10,000 value and 4-5 employees to be eligible for a <$5,000 grant.
-4th Benefit: Company must have less than $17,500 value and 5-6 employees to be eligible for a <$5,500 grant.

 

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Nay - There are existing grants that can be altered to include this. No need to over-complicate it.

 

[HugeBob]

VP Tiebreak: NAY

The grants codified apply to very few companies. Just by accepting the already available grants, your company becomes ineligible for the first 3 benefits as your company is then worth at least $15,000. This system would likely lead to disadvantaging players that are unaware of this while players who are aware of this would apply for employment grants first, then for other grants to effectively boost their grant cap by $2,250 despite employing no one other than the owner. Additionally, the overwhelming majority of companies worth less than $50,000 hire few to no employees, not because of a lack of money but because of a lack of need. Businesses only hire when employees are needed, and that happens at scale, excluding larger companies from these benefits sounds good on the surface but those are the only companies that have the need for employees at all.