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Parliament Salary limits
Eugenia ALMAND
Thursday, January 09, 2003 8:14 PM
°°° Abstract: World Parliament salary limits would strengthen World
Parliament. Popular support will be stronger with a well conceived plan for
accountability within the World Parliament itself. °°°
I believe that we can improve the World Parliament as defined in the Earth
Constitution <http://www.wcpagren.org/cnfdeart.dir/contents.html> by
removing the unlimited income from the members of the world parliament. As
originally drafted, it invites the corruption of ever increasing salaries
over that of the general populace. This is the ancient, wrong, and generally
accepted principle that the City Council determines its own salary.
Change part of Article V.F.17. : * Salary schedules for members of the World
Parliament and for Members of the Presidium and of the Executive Cabinet
shall be determined by the World Parliament. * The following substitution
builds strength and legitimacy:
* Salary schedules for members of the World Parliament and for Members of
the Presidium and of the Executive Cabinet shall be under strict popular
control, with annual salary reviews, conducted by plebiscite under the
direction of the World Boundaries and Elections Administration. Salaries for
all Members of the World Parliament shall be equal, except that Members of
the Executive Cabinet may receive additional pay, as determined by the
plebiscite, commensurate with the additional duties of the positions. The
World Parliament shall maintain both a non-poverty base living wage and a
maximum living wage for world government civil service employees and persons
privately contracted for service to the Earth Federation. The maximum wage
shall not be more than five times the base living wage. In no case shall
salaries to Members of the World Parliament be less than the base living
wage, nor above the maximum living wage. The annual plebiscite shall
determine the parliamentary and executive salaries as ratios between the
base and maximum salary. The plebiscites shall be staggered by 180 days from
the dates of general world government elections. The new salary schedules as
determined by the plebiscites take place immediately upon assessment of the
salarial votes.*
Eugenia Almand
WP21 Alliance Forum on a World Parliament for the 21st Century
E-mail : world-parl@forums.alliance21.org
Fax 1 717 264 5036
Information, inscriptions, désinscriptions: germa@alliance21.org
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