The World Assembly,
Recognizing previous efforts by the World Assembly to protect the rights of labour and labourers including General Assembly Resolutions
#43,
#503,
#543,
#560, and
#665 (the most recent of which is explicitly focused at guaranteeing minimum standard of living);
Concerned that, despite the above resolutions' work to protect a minimum standard of living in the abstract, the World Assembly does not require any employer - whether a small private business with a couple of employees or a state-owned behemoth with billions of workers at its command - to pay a minimum amount to its labourers, enabling them to disregard sapient persons' renumeration rights and broader personal interests;
Conscious of the fact that a concerning increase among employees whose remuneration rights are not respected require action in this regard;
Asserting that measures must be taken as soon as possible to deal with this ever-growing injustice of the labour market;
Hereby:
1.
Defines "minimum wage" as the minimum wage or salary that should be guaranteed to workers by their employers,
2.
Defines an "employee" as a sapient individual who by contract is obliged, for remuneration, to work under the employment and direction of an employer,
3.
Further defines the poverty line in each member state as the average cost of materials or supplies necessary for the survival of a sapient individual in that member state (which shall, at minimum, include the costs of food, rent for a single-person dwelling and utilities for that dwelling),
4.
Requires each member state to:
a. Calculate its poverty line annually,
b. Set a minimum wage for all employees on that basis which shall be above its poverty line at least over a full-time workweek (although nothing shall otherwise prevent the setting of different minimum wages for different occupations),
c. Pursue enforcement measures (including adequate sanctions, if needed) against any employer that fails to pay its employees that minimum wage, and
d. Provide financial support for employers that sincerely require its help with paying their employees the minimum wage, which shall be targeted solely towards such payment, through member state government funds and/or funding assistance provided by the WA General Fund.
