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  • This house supports removing minimum service requirements during strike actions for essential public sector workers (e.g., nurses, firefighters, police)

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    In many countries, workers have a legal right to strike. However, in sectors classified as "essential" (such as healthcare, firefighting, or policing), governments often mandate minimum service requirements during strike actions. These are legal obligations that require a baseline level of service or staffing to continue during a strike, intended to protect public health, safety, or social functioning.

    13th Zamboanga Debate Open · Octofinals · 2025-04-05

  • This house opposes the expansion of temporary foreign worker programs

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    Temporary Foreign Worker Programs (TFWPs) are government-regulated schemes that allow businesses to hire foreign workers for short-term employment when no suitable local candidates are available.

    13th Zamboanga Debate Open · Octofinals · 2025-04-05

  • This house regrets the rise of networking culture

    Infoslide

    Networking culture emphasizes building and maintaining professional connections in order to know and be known by “the right people”. This could involve self-promotion on social media sites (e.g. LinkedIn) and attendance at networking events.

    KDS DAE RT 2025 · EFL Grand-finals · 2025-04-04

  • This house would legalize secondary or solidarity strikes

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    Secondary or solidarity strikes involve unions striking not against their own employer but in support of workers from another company or industry. Currently, countries like the US, the UK, Australia, Canada, and Germany generally prohibit these strikes.

    Luzon Novice Debate Cup 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-03-29

  • This house, as an individual entering the job market, would opt to be severed

    Infoslide

    Severance is a procedure that splits an individual's consciousness into two: an "innie" or the work consciousness, and an "outie" or the primary/outside work consciousness. Innies and outies have completely separate memories that cannot be accessed by the other. Severance is typically done for work that is "mysterious and important".

    Cebu Pro-Am British Parliamentary · Round 3 · 2025-03-29

  • This House believes that a US healthcare system with predominantly temporary nursing is preferable to one with predominantly permanent nursing.

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    Currently, the US healthcare system has a blend of both permanent and temporary nurses. Permanent nursing refers to a model of nursing employment where hospitals or clinics employ nurses as full-time employees. In contrast, temporary nursing is a model of nursing employment where nurses pick up shifts on an ad-hoc basis, or sign short term contracts (usually no longer than a few months) via agencies to work at certain facilities. In recent years, the proportion of temporary nurses in US hospitals has increased.

    North American University Debating Championships 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-03-28

  • This house Regrets the rise of girlboss feminism

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    Girlboss feminism refers to a contemporary feminist movement that celebrates and promotes women's empowerment, particularly in the realms of entrepreneurship, leadership, and career success. It emphasizes the idea that women can achieve professional and personal success by embracing their ambition, confidence, and assertiveness.

    BDU Rookies BP · Round 1 · 2025-03-22

  • This house supports the abolishment of tenure

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    Academic tenure refers to the permanent appointment of faculty members in institutions of higher education, such that they can only be dismissed from their positions for highly serious forms of misconduct or due to extraordinary circumstances like programme discontinuation. Generally, firing staff with tenure is rather difficult although not impossible, and often requires there to have been a criminal charge. Tenure is usually granted on the basis of research published, service length or the ability to gain significant external funding for the institution that they work in.

    NTU DC 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-03-22

  • This house supports the abolishment of tenure

    Infoslide

    Academic tenure refers to the permanent appointment of faculty members in institutions of higher education, such that they can only be dismissed from their positions for highly serious forms of misconduct or due to extraordinary circumstances like programme discontinuation. Generally, firing staff with tenure is rather difficult although not impossible, and often requires there to have been a criminal charge. Tenure is usually granted on the basis of research published, service length or the ability to gain significant external funding for the institution that they work in.

    NTU DC 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-03-22

  • This house regrets the reinstatement of Sam Altman

    Infoslide

    On November 17, 2023, the CEO of OpenAI (the company that made Chatgpt, DALL-E etc.) fired their CEO Sam Altman due to alleged concerns about his handling of artificial intelligence safety, and allegations of abusive behavior. This also led to the removal of the OpenAI president Greg Brockman. However, shortly after, he was reinstated on November 22nd due to massive pressure from OpenAI employees and Investors, some of which threatened to leave the company in Sam's absence.

    Ashoka University Parliamentary Debate 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-03-21

  • This house believes that the shift from long-cycle development into short-cycle development in technology and engineering has done more harm than good.

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    In the 2000s, following the rise of the software industry, many industries shifted their development models to have far shorter cycles, reducing the timespan between the inception of a project to its completion where it would be launched or commercially available.

    Ashoka University Parliamentary Debate 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-03-21