ASEAN economic community: slow progress on labour issues

• Main Author: Pitakdumrongkit, Kaewkamol
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Commentary
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: ASEAN
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/82030; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/39803
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Although Southeast Asian economies rely on international labour as a key element of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), the progress of labour liberalisation has been disappointing. It is obstructed by domestic laws and regulations due to differing concerns of labour-exporting and labour-importing c...