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  • This house prefers sectoral bargaining to enterprise bargaining

    Infoslide

    Sectoral bargaining refers to large labor unions negotiating on behalf of a full sector of employees (e.g. teachers union, coal miners union). In contrast, enterprise bargaining refers to smaller labor unions negotiating on behalf of employees of a single company (e.g. Amazon Labour union).

    Berkeley IV 2024 · Round 5 · 2024-03-16

  • This house would rather be Mario than Luigi

    Infoslide

    Mario and Luigi are single, childless, young adults who are equally talented and educated. Both live in the same city, work the same job in the same company and have the same health and wealth. Mario always dreamt of reaching the top of the ladder in their current career, but are far from it. They are still determined to do all in their power to reach that goal and never considered another life trajectory. Luigi has never been sure what they want to do in life. They changed many careers before this one, and never felt they found their calling. They don't know what they want to do in the future and are open to the option of another career change.

    31st International Christian University Tournament · Open Finals · 2024-03-16

  • This house opposes the "up or out" system

    Infoslide

    The "up or out" system is the requirement for members of a hierarchical organisation to achieve a higher position or designation within a certain period of time by fulfilling certain milestones or targets that have been set for their positions. If they fail to do so, they must leave the organization, either voluntarily or through a formal suspension. This system is practiced by many professional services firm (e.g. accounting, management consulting, and legal services)

    31st International Christian University Tournament · Open Quarterfinals · 2024-03-16

  • As a promising Indian university level basketball player, This house would accept an international basketball offer over a govt job.

    Infoslide

    In India, Basketball has been one of the least opted sports professionally. We see college teams and tournaments happening but Indian teams don’t play often at international level. But this decade, Indian basketball has shown a huge increment in traction and performance. Multiple leagues like EPBL and INBL have been started which offer decent incentives for athletes through which you get opportunity to play in other leagues globally. International basketball offer is an offer to play in one of the most prominent leagues in the world. The Indian government, in order to promote sports, has been offering government jobs to athletes who play well on university level and national/international level. These jobs offer security and decent pay. However, you have to work at your job and even if you don’t play you will retain your job.

    Vaagyudh 2024 · Round 2 · 2024-03-16

  • This house believes that the United States should heavily redistribute wealth* *e.g. significantly increasing taxes on the rich, increasing welfare and public services spending, raising the minimum wage

    Cracow Open 2024 · Round 4 · 2024-03-16

  • This house would allow companies to have clauses in their employment contracts that prohibit women from having children while they are bound by the contract

    NTU DC 2024 · Round 4 · 2024-03-12

  • Tanel needs to talk to Kristjan about the layoff.

    Infoslide

    Tanel works as the secretary for the owner of DebateLand Ltd. The owner of the company gave Tanel this job when Tanel was in a deep financial crisis and nobody else wanted to hire him, and even though there were better candidates available for the secretary position. One day, Tanel finds out from the owner that several workers will soon be laid off, among whom is Tanel's best friend for life, Kristjan. The owner of the company orders Tanel to keep the layoffs a secret. Otherwise, Tanel will be fired. If Tanel talked to any other company worker about the layoff, the owner of the company would definitely find out. After the layoff, Kristjan would certainly find out that Tanel knew about the layoff beforehand.

    Poska Impro 2024 · Round 3 · 2024-03-09

  • During times of crisis, financial assistance from the government, does more harm than good.

    Infoslide

    This includes but is not limited to the “北陸応援割” and “Go To Travel” in Japan; the Bayanihan Program in the Philippines, which provides subsidies to those affected by the COVID-19 pandemic; and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) in the US, which is an economic stimulus package to provide financial help during the economic recession in 2008.

    HPDU Shikoku Kyushu Open 2024 · Open QF · 2024-03-09