Citizen Fee and Minimum Wage
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by Severin Organization
Recently two laws were proposed and rejected by the Congress. In keeping with my pre election promise to be accountable for, I will write about how I voted and what I think about the issues.
Citizen Fee
The first law proposed was changing the citizen fee from 10 IEP to 15 IEP. I voted no. I felt this would be an unnecessary strain on our treasury. If anything we should be decreasing the citizen fee. Many citizens join eIreland and then leave soon after. The state loses 10 IEP each times this happens. We should be conserving the state treasury. One could argue it might attract immigrants to eIreland however I do not think we need immigrants at the moment (we did months ago). We get a healthy influx of new citizens everyday. Quite frankly, taking into consideration the price of food and the fact zero skill workers can get paid 5 IEP, I think a 10 IEP citizen fee is more than adequate and even 5 IEP would be suffice.
Minimum Wage
The second law proposed was to change the minimum wage from 1 IEP to 3 IEP. I voted no. Currently 5 IEP is being offered by the state for workers with no skills. So anyone can get paid at least 5 IEP. If you are on skill 1 or 2 I suggest availing of this job offer until something better comes
along or until you reach skill 3. There is no reason you should ever accept wages less than 5 IEP. I cannot see any reason to raise the minimum wage and it would only be a bother to those who work for their own company.
I do however recognize that they are not enough jobs for skill 1 and skill 2 workers. Raising the minimum wage is not a solution to this problem. I would instead advocate the reopening of the state gift company and have it post jobs for skill 1 and skill 2 workers, even if the wages were just a little above 5 IEP. This I feel is needed considering dwindling resources for the gifting program (I am myself in the middle of donating 50 Q2 gifts to the Health Minister, I have donated 20 so far) and for reserves for our national defense.
I am of course, as always, open to suggestions and would be delighted with any feedback. Also if you have any questions or such please contact me. Finally, if you haven't already please join the forum http://forum.erepublik-ie.com and voice your opinion on the issues.
-Severin
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I think the minimum wage should go up. The 5IEP zero skill workplace is full, or out of raw material and I'm currently getting 1IEP a day.
@ Kazturkey Irish State Housing is currently offering 80 5 IEP jobs and they have more than 600 units of raw material. Why don't you work with them? And they are plenty of companies offering more than 1 IEP at the moment. I know sometimes state companies become full or run out of resources however this is tempormental and is usually ratified quickly.
I think the citizen fee should be drastically reduced, and the remainder moved back a week.
Once a player has been active for a week, then they dept of finance should pay the remainder.
Contraversial?
AT*
Too difficult to implement Aran Tal.
I see where you are coming from Top Gun, but look at the success of pdiddy's gifting program and the tool that Gorzong built for finding the unwell. Surely this could be rejigged and extended to serve the proposed task without too much fuss?
AT*
hmmm that would probably be hard to code though, something that separates peoples activities and such...
The minimum wage should be able to purchase the lowest grade food available, to be expected to work for 1 or 2 iep per day is crazy. Like wise for the state to offer 5 iep per day for skill 0 is stupid, wages need to be aligned to skills and rewarded accordingly.
Also what about implimenting the euro and getting rid of the now defunct national currancies.
@ Nogin the nog Heh the Euro would be nice however I doubht it will never be implemented in eRepublik. I agree with you about the state offering 5 IEP for 0 skill workers. They should offer less and have another company post jobs for those with skill 1 and 2.