YES

# Compositional parallel rule labeling (Shintani and Hirokawa 2022).

Consider the left-linear TRS R:

  c() -> c()
  h(a(),h(f(b()),c())) -> c()

Let C be the following subset of R:

  (empty)

All parallel critical peaks (except C's) are decreasing wrt rule labeling:

  phi(c() -> c()) = 1
  phi(h(a(),h(f(b()),c())) -> c()) = 1

  psi(c() -> c()) = 1
  psi(h(a(),h(f(b()),c())) -> c()) = 1


Therefore, the confluence of R follows from that of C.

# Compositional parallel critical pair system (Shintani and Hirokawa 2022).

Consider the left-linear TRS R:

  (empty)

Let C be the following subset of R:

  (empty)

The parallel critical pair system PCPS(R,C) is:

  (empty)

All pairs in PCP(R) are joinable and PCPS(R,C)/R is terminating.
Therefore, the confluence of R follows from that of C.

# emptiness

The empty TRS is confluent.