Centricism: helping the common folk

Centricism is the new name of my proposal for a government policy to help the common folk. All employers are divided into categories: industry category, as well as company size (small, medium, and large). All employers within a category are ranked on 2 separate measures: quality and quantity. Quantity means how well the employees are paid. Quality is measured by having all employees and supervisors fill out a questionnaire once a year. High-ranking employers receive a subsidy in proportion to how high they are ranked. Low-ranking employers pay a tax in proportion to how low they are ranked.

I propose the following partial solution to the problem of employees inflating job-quality scores, and disgruntled employees deflating those scores. All questionnaires with extreme negative/positive scores are flagged, and if most employees in the same company are extreme (negative or positive), those extreme questionnaires are given less weight or completely ignored. Moderate questionnaires receive more weight than extreme questionnaires, since they are more likely to be honestly filled out. Even questionnaires which are too moderate (lots of 2s, 3s, and 4s, and no 1s and 5s), might well be given less weight. Questionnaires with contradictory information are flagged as being too random, and given less weight.

The purpose of Centricism (based on employers being employee-centric) is to help the common folk, by rewarding employers who pay well and have good working conditions, and penalizing employers who do not. If the NDP adopts Centricism as one of their main policy planks, then hopefully they'll be more likely to form a government. If the government implements Centricism, then hopefully Canadian employers will be more likely to pay their employees well and have good working conditions.