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Give every worker an indexed wage floor, a fair path to bargain, paid leave, portable benefits, algorithmic due process, and a share of productivity gains.
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Innovation that increases output while reducing worker power is extraction with better software. Workers need a floor they do not renegotiate alone, benefits that survive a job change, and a voice when an algorithm controls pay, scheduling, discipline, or dismissal.
The Innovation Party supports a Portable Security and Worker Power Act:
Index the federal wage floor. Raise it through a predictable phase-in, then index it to a fixed share of the national median wage with regional higher floors preserved. A commission may pause an increase during a severe local employment shock, with evidence and automatic review.
Make organizing fast and verifiable. Permit secure in-person or digital representation elections, require equal access to the voter list, prohibit retaliation, and order a first- contract mediation and arbitration backstop when bargaining is deliberately stalled.
Create portable benefit accounts. Every hiring firm or labor platform contributes per hour or dollar earned to a worker-owned account for paid leave, retirement, training, and insurance. Contributions do not decide whether a worker is legally an employee.
Establish national paid family and medical leave insurance. Replace the unpaid-only federal floor with wage replacement financed broadly through payroll contributions, covering care, illness, birth, adoption, military family needs, and safe leave.
Give algorithmic management due process. Workers receive notice of consequential automated rules, access to their data, an explanation of adverse action, a human appeal, and protection against off-duty or irrelevant surveillance.
Share the productivity dividend. Large firms receiving automation tax benefits, public subsidies, or procurement preference must publish gain-sharing through wages, profit sharing, training, reduced hours, or worker ownership.
Modernize unemployment protection. Use real-time payroll data for automatic claims, portable wage records, partial benefits during reduced hours, and temporary wage insurance when a displaced worker accepts lower-paid reemployment.
The platform protects independent work when it is genuinely independent and enforces employment law when a company controls the work. Worker choice defines flexibility. An employer cannot create it by disclaiming every duty.
No worker should face industrial-scale power with an individual-scale contract.
Turn frustration into useful pressure.
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