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Labour
The purpose of our economy is primarily to create and maintain the necessities for society. We are lucky enough to have surplus in our economic production which can also provide for many of our personal wishes and desires, beyond just our needs. Building a strong, resilient economy is critical to ensuring this continues to be the case.
An economy is not a playground for the ultrawealthy capitalists to extract surplus value by exploiting labourers.
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The RPC recognizes that rapid advancements in robotics and artificial intelligence have allowed for dramatic gains in operational efficiency resulting in shrinking of the manual and cognitive labour workforces. To ensure this is not exploited to the detriment of society and further expansion of wealth inequity, we will legislate an automation tax.
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The RPC recognizes the importance of ethically participating in the global economy, while also acknowledging the current global economic situation requires we establish a procurement policy which strongly favours domestic and strictly ethically-sourced foreign sources of goods and services to reduce greenhouse gas emissions related to shipping and reduce the international economic inequalities created by capitalist globalization.
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The RPC will legislate a new scaling tax for leaders which earn more than 5x their lowest compensated employee; the greater the ratio, the higher their personal income tax. To be clear, this means the leader(s) will themselves be required to pay a surcharge on their personal taxes as consequence of their exploitative practices at work.
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The RPC will legislate a new scaling tax for organizations in which one or more employees earn more than 5x their lowest compensated employee; the greater the ratio, the higher their corporate tax rate. For egregiously unfair scenarios (e.g., one or more employees earning 20x more than their lowest compensated employee), the tax surcharge will equate to a 100% corporate tax rate.
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The RPC will legislate mandatory transparency for all compensation (e.g., salary, stock, options, commissions) and benefits (e.g., health benefits, vacation, free or discounted goods and services, and other perks), including in all job postings (i.e., full time, part time, permanent, and contract) and throughout the entire course of employment, to reduce pay inequity and wage theft.
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The RPC will mandate a federal minimum wage of $20 per hour which is tied to the consumer price index (CPI), with increases automatically taking effect twice each year. Regions identified as exceptional, such as anomalously large or remote locations (e.g., Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, Yellowknife), will have their own locally monitored and regulated living wage index.
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