Managing Labour Adjustments in an Integrating ASEAN

Rene Ofreneo and Kun Wardana Abyoto
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Rene Ofreneo: SOLAIR, UP Diliman
Kun Wardana Abyoto: UNI APRO

No DP-2015-80, Working Papers from Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA)

Abstract: The integration processes of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) are ushering changes in the labour market across the region. Unions complain that jobs are increasingly becoming precarious. Human resource managers find it difficult to retain talents which have become mobile under the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) Blueprint (ASEAN, 2007b) allowing the free flow of skilled labour. And labour administrators are faced with three major policy issues: 1) how to promote human resource development in a labour market that has become regional; 2) how to balance the demand of workers for more protection and the demand of industry for more labour flexibility; and 3) how to maintain industrial peace in an integrating ASEAN? To address the foregoing, the paper argues for increased bipartite and tripartite social dialogue in accordance with the “ASEAN Guidelines on Good Industrial Relations Practices” adopted by the ASEAN Labour Ministers (ALM) in 2010.

Keywords: Industrial Relations; Labour Adjustments; Social Partnership (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G34 J5 J6 J8 K31 M54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32 pages.
Date: 2015-12
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-sea
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