Selwa
26-03-2007, 02:30
UNITED NATIONS RESOLUTION #175
Individual Working Freedoms
A resolution to develop industry around the world.
Category: Advancement of Industry
Area of Effect: Labor Deregulation
Proposed by: Gruenberg
Description: The United Nations,
Strongly reaffirming its commitment to individual liberty,
Believing that individuals should be as free as possible from undue government interference in making decisions governing their personal lives,
Convinced that the issues of when, how often, and for how long an individual works should remain an issue for private negotiation between employer and employee,
Recalling the repeal of Resolution #59, "The 40 Hour Workweek", and the reasons therein given for the weaknesses of the prior document,
Dissenting from the view that one standard working week can be determined as a universal diktat, given the diversity of national economies, the particulars of industries working on cyclical, seasonal or other irregular working patterns, and the varying conditions, demographic, environmental, developmental, and otherwise, of member nations,
Considering any attempt to impose a "one size fits all" manacle of working time constriction as a grossly unfair abrogation of individual freedoms,
Desirous of reaching a fair compromise on the issue:
1. Requires member nations to grant their people the greatest possible degree of freedom in determining their terms of employment, with specific regard to working time;
2. Calls upon member nations to respect the rights of individuals to be free to make choices about their terms of employment, and equally of individuals to seek representation or counsel during such negotiations;
3. Mandates the removal of working time regulations that serve only to reduce individual liberty, and that unfairly remove decision-making power from the individual level;
4. Reserves the right of nations to choose whether to set specific regulations on workweeks and working time in the general public interest, so long as such regulations do not unduly abridge the freedom of individuals in deciding their terms of employment;
5. Endorses policies aimed at delegating decisions concerning working time regulations to the most local level possible;
6. Promotes a healthy harmony of national and individual rights in economic decision-making.
Votes For: 7,812
Resolution #175 states that it wants to cut out the bureaucratic paperwork and allow for personal freedom for the individual worker to select the kind of shift they would be able to choose. However, Resolution #175 does not allow for individual working freedoms and the only freedoms are handed to the company where ‘private’ negotiations can take place to work out the individual worker’s ‘time schedule.’
The individual worker has no protection or freedom to fall back upon a government safety net if they are injured or become unhealthy because of the time schedule assigned to them by their employers and if they do become sick and unhealthy because of working a ’negotiated’ time schedule with their employers there is no guarantee they wouldn’t be fired because they have become ’unhealthy’.
There is also no negotiations set up with regards to family or life event matters as well as only vague wording that allows a worker to have another ’party’ come in to the negotiations of their time schedule with their employer, but it doesn’t state what kind of power the counsel has, if it is employer provided counsel or independently minded counsel for the employee that would be provided if there was government regulation that Resolution #175 gets rid off to ensure there is less ’bureaucracy’ in such an important matter as employee-employer matters.
Therefore this repeal urges that a resolution should be created within a government regimented time-frame for employees to work, however, it needs government regulation and safety nets to truly protect individual worker’s freedoms.
Individual Working Freedoms
A resolution to develop industry around the world.
Category: Advancement of Industry
Area of Effect: Labor Deregulation
Proposed by: Gruenberg
Description: The United Nations,
Strongly reaffirming its commitment to individual liberty,
Believing that individuals should be as free as possible from undue government interference in making decisions governing their personal lives,
Convinced that the issues of when, how often, and for how long an individual works should remain an issue for private negotiation between employer and employee,
Recalling the repeal of Resolution #59, "The 40 Hour Workweek", and the reasons therein given for the weaknesses of the prior document,
Dissenting from the view that one standard working week can be determined as a universal diktat, given the diversity of national economies, the particulars of industries working on cyclical, seasonal or other irregular working patterns, and the varying conditions, demographic, environmental, developmental, and otherwise, of member nations,
Considering any attempt to impose a "one size fits all" manacle of working time constriction as a grossly unfair abrogation of individual freedoms,
Desirous of reaching a fair compromise on the issue:
1. Requires member nations to grant their people the greatest possible degree of freedom in determining their terms of employment, with specific regard to working time;
2. Calls upon member nations to respect the rights of individuals to be free to make choices about their terms of employment, and equally of individuals to seek representation or counsel during such negotiations;
3. Mandates the removal of working time regulations that serve only to reduce individual liberty, and that unfairly remove decision-making power from the individual level;
4. Reserves the right of nations to choose whether to set specific regulations on workweeks and working time in the general public interest, so long as such regulations do not unduly abridge the freedom of individuals in deciding their terms of employment;
5. Endorses policies aimed at delegating decisions concerning working time regulations to the most local level possible;
6. Promotes a healthy harmony of national and individual rights in economic decision-making.
Votes For: 7,812
Resolution #175 states that it wants to cut out the bureaucratic paperwork and allow for personal freedom for the individual worker to select the kind of shift they would be able to choose. However, Resolution #175 does not allow for individual working freedoms and the only freedoms are handed to the company where ‘private’ negotiations can take place to work out the individual worker’s ‘time schedule.’
The individual worker has no protection or freedom to fall back upon a government safety net if they are injured or become unhealthy because of the time schedule assigned to them by their employers and if they do become sick and unhealthy because of working a ’negotiated’ time schedule with their employers there is no guarantee they wouldn’t be fired because they have become ’unhealthy’.
There is also no negotiations set up with regards to family or life event matters as well as only vague wording that allows a worker to have another ’party’ come in to the negotiations of their time schedule with their employer, but it doesn’t state what kind of power the counsel has, if it is employer provided counsel or independently minded counsel for the employee that would be provided if there was government regulation that Resolution #175 gets rid off to ensure there is less ’bureaucracy’ in such an important matter as employee-employer matters.
Therefore this repeal urges that a resolution should be created within a government regimented time-frame for employees to work, however, it needs government regulation and safety nets to truly protect individual worker’s freedoms.