Mentor Wage Program Act

[xXTheoryXx]

House Vote: 8-0-0
Senate Vote: 3-0-0

CONGRESS OF THE
COMMONWEALTH OF REDMONT
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A BILL TO
PAY MENTORS FOR ONBOARDING NEW PLAYERS AND REWARD RETENTION
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The people of the Commonwealth of Redmont, through their elected Representatives in the Congress and the force of law ordained to that Congress by the people through the constitution, do hereby enact the following provisions into law:
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PART I — PRELIMINARIES

1. Short Title and Enactment

(1) This Act may be cited as the 'Mentor Wage Program Act'.
(2) This Act shall be enacted immediately upon its assent.
(3) This Act has been authored by Speaker of the House xXTheoryXx.
(4) This Act has been co-sponsored by Senator True Darklander.

2. Reasons and Intent

(1) Onboarding is presently done by volunteers with no structured role and no reward, so quality and availability are inconsistent.
(2) Paying mentors for completed onboarding, and adding a bonus when a mentee is still active after a set period, ties spending directly to the outcome the Commonwealth cares about: retention.

3. Definitions

(1) For the purposes of this Act, the following definitions shall apply:

(a) Mentor. A player approved by the Department of Public Affairs (DPA) to guide New Players.
(b) Mentee. A New Player, as defined in the New Player Housing Act, formally paired with a Mentor.

PART II — THE PROGRAM

4. The Mentor Role

(1) The DPA shall maintain the approved Mentor roster and all pairing records.
(2) A Mentor shall guide a Mentee through housing, employment, banking, and core server systems during the Mentee's first 7 days, per a DPA onboarding checklist.
(3) A Mentor may hold no more than 3 active Mentees at once.

5. Wages and Retention Bonus

(1) A Mentor shall be paid $1,500 per Mentee on completion of the onboarding checklist.
(2) Where the Mentee remains active 14 days after pairing, the Mentor shall receive an additional bonus of $750.
(3) Payments shall be made from the DPA's monthly appropriation.

6. Anti-Abuse

(1) Payment is void where pairing records are falsified, where the Mentee is found to be an alternate account, or where the Mentee is found inactive at the time of the retention bonus verification.
(2) The DPA may suspend or remove a Mentor for abuse of the program.

 

[Franciscus]

Presidential Assent

This bill creates a mentorship program in the DPA. It (constructively) moves a lot of tasks that DoE guides are supposed to do over there, and this will likely cause the guides to move over to that department.

In general, I do find it a bit odd that we are doing this by statute. Setting specific commission pay in statute makes things inflexible, requires congress to come back if it needs tweaking, and does restrict a department's ability to innovate in the program. I do think this would be more optimal for department policy or executive order, because it's easier to tweak and quickly respond than getting a new bill through both chambers of Congress.

As a pilot program, however, it seems at least OK to have in statute. Hopefully this will get the ball rolling on mentorship of new players in way that the previous administration failed to do through the executive. And the Congress seems very receptive to tweaks in this kind of thing as time goes on, so I do think we'll be able to navigate that all as time progresses.

This bill is granted assent and hereby signed into law.