We need an "Right to the Highest Available Income" law.

[White_Unifier]

What this would mean is that if I offer to work for an income that is higher than what the government can offer in social assistance and an employer accepts my offer, I would have a legal right to turn my back on the socia assistance in favour of the better offer and my employer would have a right to hire me at that rate.

Your thoughts on this?

I should clarify that this would apply even if that rate is below the minimum wage.

In other words, if the social worker really doesn't want the job seeker to make such offers to employers, his office would have to offer something more enticing for the seeker to take the assistanc.

Oh sorry, I forgot. The government hates competition.

 

[lone wolf]

Try commission sales or driving a cab. The thing we don't need is more stupid laws that only serve to guarantee lawyers and bureaucrats have work

 

[White_Unifier]

Try commission sales or driving a cab. The thing we don't need is more stupid laws that only serve to guarantee lawyers and bureaucrats have work

Or just scrap the minimum wage. Sweden has no minimum wage and has a narrower wealth gap than Canada. Go figure.

 

[lone wolf]

...oh yeah.... Sweden again

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Try commission sales or driving a cab. The thing we don't need is more stupid laws that only serve to guarantee lawyers and bureaucrats have work

I'm all in favor! Call it the Lawyers Full Employment Act of 2017.

 

[White_Unifier]

I'm all in favor! Call it the Lawyers Full Employment Act of 2017.

How will an unemployed person who is legally prohibited from accepting the best offer between social assistance and a potential employer's offer below the mandatory minimum wage pay his lawyer's fees?

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

How will an unemployed person who is legally prohibited from accepting the best offer between social assistance and a potential employer's offer below the mandatory minimum wage pay his lawyer's fees?

1. Contingency
2. Multiple-plaintiff suit
3. Class action
4. Foundations established to fight this cruel injustice
5. The good ol' "make the government pay for it," which apparently works especially well in Canada

You sometimes have the germ of a good idea, or half a good idea. But the biggest problem with your social engineering is that you appear to believe that laws are self-executing.

 

[petros]

How will an unemployed person who is legally prohibited from accepting the best offer between social assistance and a potential employer's offer below the mandatory minimum wage pay his lawyer's fees?

Legal Aid

 

[White_Unifier]

1. Contingency
2. Multiple-plaintiff suit
3. Class action
4. Foundations established to fight this cruel injustice
5. The good ol' "make the government pay for it," which apparently works especially well in Canada

You sometimes have the germ of a good idea, or half a good idea. But the biggest problem with your social engineering is that you appear to believe that laws are self-executing.

some of my comments (if not many of them) I only half agree with. I sometimes type things in these forums to provoke discussion.

It would be quite a scene in the courtroom to have the government's counsel arguing that a person should not be allowed to accept the better offer from the employer since it would be 'exploitative' while the pittance that the government gives him is the epitome of generosity.

 

[MHz]

Remove all the restrictions on what you can't do to achieve that end and the success rate will be much higher.

I sometimes type things in these forums to provoke discussion.

Guards, you know the routine.

 

[Bar Sinister]

Or just scrap the minimum wage. Sweden has no minimum wage and has a narrower wealth gap than Canada. Go figure.

I've pointed this out before, but I guess you missed it. Sweden is very heavily unionized. Workers in unions don't need minimum labour laws to give them higher wages.