General Assembly Resolution #302 “Individual Working Freedoms” (Category: Advancement of Industry; Area of Effect: Labor Deregulation) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.
Celebrating its efforts to defend the rights of employees through resolutions including “Restrictions on Child Labor”, “Workplace Safety Standards Act”, and “Protecting the Rights of Labour Unions”;
Believing that the resolution “Individual Working Freedoms” stands in the way of protection of workers, as it effectively does nothing except restrict the ability of the World Assembly to protect the rights of employees;
Noting that one of the only clauses in the resolution which is actually binding on member nations, lifting all “working time regulations that serve only to reduce individual liberty and that do not serve any other purpose”, has an extraordinarily vague standard which does nothing to prevent member nations from rationalising regulations as having some purpose besides “reduc[ing] individual liberty”;
Perturbed that Section 3 bars the World Assembly from interfering in the decisions of member nations regarding “whether to set specific regulations on workweeks and working time in the general public interest”, a broad scope which does not only apply to a mandate for “one standard working week”, but also prohibition of practices such as coercing employees to accept overly long shifts to the point of being psychologically or physically burdensome, on threat of starvation or unemployment;
Recognising that although the World Assembly has legislated to protect labour unions, they still may often have insufficient bargaining power to prevent such exploitation of labour, as employers frequently maintain more power over employees, and by extension unions they form, than vice versa;
Convinced that the rationale of the resolution for doing this, ie that “any attempt to impose a universal manacle of working time restriction [is] a grossly unfair abrogation of individual freedoms”, is insufficient, as it is in fact beneficial for individual freedoms for workers not to be coerced into shifts of a physically or psychologically detrimental length;
Finding that as the resolution has no substantive effect besides restricting the ability of the World Assembly to protect workers against exploitation, its repeal will not affect the rights of workers, except that the World Assembly will have a greater authority to legislate in favour of workers in the future;
The World Assembly repeals GA #302, “Individual Working Freedoms”.