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  • This House believes that Japan should seek to address its aging population crisis by focusing on opening its border to more immigrants, investing in automation, and encourage longer working lives as opposed to encouraging a higher birth rate (e.g. subsidies for child care, baby bonuses, paternity leave)

    Infoslide

    Japan is facing an aging population crisis, characterized by a rapidly increasing proportion of elderly citizens, a declining irth rate, and a shrinking workforce. This demographic shift is a result of several factors, including increasing life expectancy and low fertility rates.

    JDO 2023 · Schools Quarterfinals · 2023-03-17

  • This house would require companies to report all power harassment complaints to the Labour Standards Bureau for investigation and prosecution instead of settling these grievances internally.

    Infoslide

    Workplace bullying, (also known as “Power harassment” in Japan) is defined as a form of bullying by those who are in a higher work position. Based on Japan's Labor Policy Comprehensive Promotion Act, Power Harassment consists of “remarks and behaviour of people taking advantage of their superior positions in the workplace that exceed what is necessary and appropriate for the conduct of business, thereby harming the working environment of employees”. Examples of Power Harassment include, but are not limited to, physical abuse, emotional abuse (e.g. threats, defamation, insults, rants), and excessive demand at work (e.g. unnecessary requests, unfulfillable tasks, obstruction of work).

    JDO 2023 · Schools Finals · 2023-03-17

  • This House believes that Japan should seek to address its aging population crisis by focusing on opening its border to more immigrants, investing in automation, and encourage longer working lives as opposed to encouraging a higher birth rate (e.g. subsidies for child care, baby bonuses, paternity leave)

    Infoslide

    Japan is facing an aging population crisis, characterized by a rapidly increasing proportion of elderly citizens, a declining irth rate, and a shrinking workforce. This demographic shift is a result of several factors, including increasing life expectancy and low fertility rates.

    JDO 2023 · Octofinals · 2023-03-17

  • This house would require companies to report all power harassment complaints to the Labour Standards Bureau for investigation and prosecution instead of settling these grievances internally

    Infoslide

    Workplace bullying, (also known as “Power harassment” in Japan) is defined as a form of bullying by those who are in a higher work position. Based on Japan's Labor Policy Comprehensive Promotion Act, Power Harassment consists of “remarks and behaviour of people taking advantage of their superior positions in the workplace that exceed what is necessary and appropriate for the conduct of business, thereby harming the working environment of employees”. Examples of Power Harassment include, but are not limited to, physical abuse, emotional abuse (e.g. threats, defamation, insults, rants), and excessive demand at work (e.g. unnecessary requests, unfulfillable tasks, obstruction of work).

    JDO 2023 · Semifinals · 2023-03-17

  • This House regrets the decline of lifetime employment offers

    Infoslide

    Shūshin koyō (終身雇用) is the term for permanent employment in Japan that evolved from Japan’s impressive postwar economic growth during the Showa Era. In the practice of lifetime employment, companies typically hire new college graduates and implicitly guarantee them stable employment until they reach the retirement age. This gave rise to the notion of a salaryman with unshakable loyalty to their company in exchange for lifetime employment security. Japan's lifetime employment system, backed by seniority-based wages, became the standard after the 1950's. Today many believe that the concept of lifetime employment is outdated. In fact, only 8.8 percent of Japanese companies now have lifetime employment policies in place

    JDO 2023 · 5 · 2023-03-17

  • This house believes that young workers should embrace 'quiet quitting'.

    Infoslide

    Quiet quitting refers to doing the minimum requirements of one's job and putting in no more time, effort, or enthusiasm than absolutely necessary.

    Law Foundation Cup 2023 - Junior Category · Round 5 · 2023-03-04

  • That we support the Sharing Economy.

    Infoslide

    The Sharing Economy refers to peer-to-peer-based sharing of access to goods and services (coordinated through community-based online services). Prominent examples include Uber and AirBnB.

    Advanced Open 2023 · Round 3 · 2023-03-02

  • This House would require that companies exclusively use the key performance indicator (KPI) as a metric when promoting workers

    Infoslide

    Key performance indicators (KPIs) refer to a set of quantifiable measurements used to gauge a company’s overall long-term performance. KPIs are determined by the board of each company, using business analytics software benchmarked against industry competitors and are disclosed publicly. Individual KPIs are determined by upper management and are usually explicitly stated in a workers' employment contract.

    Lloyd Parliamentary Debate · Round 3 · 2023-03-01

  • That businesses should be able to fire employees based on their social media use (e.g. what they share on instagram/twitter)

    Senior Open 2023 · Round 3 · 2023-03-01

  • This House would allow workers to opt into Severance

    Infoslide

    Severance is a process that allows employees to separate their work-related memories from their personal memories. This is achieved through a cognitive process that selectively 'splits' memories, so that memories created during work hours are not accessible outside of work, and vice versa. The process is voluntary and reversible.

    Lloyd Parliamentary Debate · Round 3 · 2023-03-01

  • Time Set: 1920s This House (Indian communists) will urge workers to prioritise overthrowing the British by working with nationalist liberation movements instead of urging workers in a class struggle against Indian factory-owners.

    Infoslide

    In the 1910s, the world saw the beginning of possibilities between the worker movements across the world and nationalist anti-colonial liberation movements in colonized nations. However, for Lenin, national anti-colonial movements can only exist as bourgeois movements, for the bulk of these nationalist movements are led by the landowning powerful classes. Thus, even though the bourgeois classes in colonised countries are supporting and leading anti-colonial movements, they simultaneously work in harmony with the imperialist (colonising) bourgeoisie, i.e., it joins the latter in fighting against all revolutionary movements by worker classes (Lenin, “Preliminary Theses on the National-Colonial Question)”). How then were the workers and communists supposed to imagine their future? For them, supporting national movements meant ushering the nation towards capitalistic development. In their critique of British of rule, the founding fathers of the Indian National Congress had made the Indian people’s poverty a central issue. Dadabhai Naoroji, from 1876 wrote papers, memoranda and pamphlets, statistically presenting the state of misery and tracing its causes to the tribute rendered to Britain, to the de-industrialization generated by Free Trade, and to the over-taxation and currency manipulations by the British regime. The British rule was then responsible for the economic depravation of India, hurting the common workers the most. Gandhi advocated for an inter-class and inter-caste solidarity between the the dominant zamindars, thakurs (land-owning castes), and factory-owners and workers, to fight together against overthrowing the British: "owners and workers ought to be in a relationship of father to son." The 1920s in India witnessed general mass strikes by workers across the country over several dominant industries such as cotton mills over issues such as wage issues and working conditions. Some of these were successful, some were not.

    Lloyd Parliamentary Debate · Semifinals · 2023-03-01

  • That all university students receiving professional degrees (eg. medicine, law, veterinary science) should be required to work in a rural area for 2 years after graduation

    Senior Open 2023 · Round 1 · 2023-03-01

  • That we should abolish academic tenure

    Infoslide

    Academic tenure is a type of academic appointment in universities where an academic's employment cannot be terminated except in exceptional circumstances (e.g. a crime, a serious breach of duties, the university being unable to pay them). It is usually granted to senior academics.

    Senior Open 2023 · Round 5 · 2023-03-01

  • Time Set: 1920s This House (Indian communists) will urge workers to prioritise overthrowing the British by working with nationalist liberation movements instead of urging workers in a class struggle against Indian factory-owners.

    Infoslide

    In the 1910s, the world saw the beginning of possibilities between the worker movements across the world and nationalist anti-colonial liberation movements in colonized nations. However, for Lenin, national anti-colonial movements can only exist as bourgeois movements, for the bulk of these nationalist movements are led by the landowning powerful classes. Thus, even though the bourgeois classes in colonised countries are supporting and leading anti-colonial movements, they simultaneously work in harmony with the imperialist (colonising) bourgeoisie, i.e., it joins the latter in fighting against all revolutionary movements by worker classes (Lenin, “Preliminary Theses on the National-Colonial Question)”). How then were the workers and communists supposed to imagine their future? For them, supporting national movements meant ushering the nation towards capitalistic development. In their critique of British of rule, the founding fathers of the Indian National Congress had made the Indian people’s poverty a central issue. Dadabhai Naoroji, from 1876 wrote papers, memoranda and pamphlets, statistically presenting the state of misery and tracing its causes to the tribute rendered to Britain, to the de-industrialization generated by Free Trade, and to the over-taxation and currency manipulations by the British regime. The British rule was then responsible for the economic depravation of India, hurting the common workers the most. Gandhi advocated for an inter-class and inter-caste solidarity between the the dominant zamindars, thakurs (land-owning castes), and factory-owners and workers, to fight together against overthrowing the British: "owners and workers ought to be in a relationship of father to son." The 1920s in India witnessed general mass strikes by workers across the country over several dominant industries such as cotton mills over issues such as wage issues and working conditions. Some of these were successful, some were not.

    Lloyd Parliamentary Debate · Novice Finals · 2023-03-01

  • This house believes that India should heavily prioritize giving PLIs to companies in labor-intensive sectors manufacturing cheap goods (e.g., garments, furniture, toys) rather than in capital-intensive, higher-value sectors (e.g., automobiles, technology, chemicals).

    Infoslide

    In India, production-linked incentives (PLIs) are subsidies offered to firms as a reward for incremental sales (as some percentage of sales volume).

    CUPD 2023 · 3 · 2023-02-24

  • This House would decrease the entry requirements for men in female-dominated fields (e.g. Psychiatry, nursing, education)

    Infoslide

    Author Dr. Richard Reeves has coined the term HEAL jobs to include professions in the sectors of health, education, administration, and literacy. In these fields, only 24% of workers are male, with projections that the gap is widening.

    Asian Online Debating Championship WSDC 2023 · Octofinals · 2023-02-24

  • This house supports job security legislation

    Infoslide

    For the purpose of this debate, “job security legislation” refers to laws intended to make businesses fire employees less often. Its goal is to disincentives the termination of existing employees, whether the business employs an alternative individual to replace them or not. Examples of this legislation include, but are not limited to, increased severance pay and detailed cause requirements for terminating employment. Protections against discriminatory termination or similar laws do not fall under this term.

    Western Winter HST 2023 · Junior Semifinals · 2023-02-24