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The people of the Commonwealth of Redmont, 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 'Workers’ Rights Act.'
(2) This Act shall be enacted immediately upon its signage.
(3) This Act has been authored by Rep. Kaiserin_ with contributions from Smallfries4, TrueDarklander, and others.
(4) This Act has been co-sponsored by Speaker MissAndrist and Sen. Goldendude15.
2 - Reasons
(1) The Commercial Standards Act provides basic but incomplete protections for employees against unfair dismissal.
(2) The workers of Redmont are entitled to complete and well-rounded protections for their livelihoods.
(3) The provisions in the Commercial Standards Act should be clarified in order to be properly enforceable.
3 - Amendments
(1) Section 13, subsection 1 of the Commercial Standards Act shall be amended as follows:
"(1) Unfair dismissal - the unjust termination of an employee. (e.g. a position is made vacant without reason only to be immediately filled). An employee shall be considered unfairly dismissed if a court of law determines that the employee has been unreasonably terminated from their position. In determining if a termination was unreasonable, the following criteria must rightfully be considered:
(a) if the employee’s termination made financial sense given the regular business activities and necessity to maintain operations of the terminating party (such as in the case of normal company downsizing);
(b) whether or not the employee’s continued employment would have been a detriment to the workflow, reputation, or legal standing of the business;
(c) whether or not the dismissal was made primarily on the basis of any personally identifiable characteristics, including, but not limited to, gender, race, or political affiliation;
(i) Excepted from the provisions in 4(c) are personally identifiable characteristics that are integral to the function of the terminated party's employment;
(d) other metrics that courts find necessary to consider in accordance with what may be considered unfair dismissal by any reasonable person and is consistent with the previous language and intent of this section. Courts may not construe this section in any way that creates a result that is odd, absurd, or otherwise inconsistent with this section or the intent thereof.”