Ensuring decent work amid the effects of climate change, the pandemic, and other calamities topped the agenda of labor groups in Southeast Asia during the forum held by the International Labor Organization (ILO) in Makati earlier this week. Know more:
ENSURING decent work amid the effects of climate change, the pandemic, and other calamities topped the agenda of labor groups in Southeast Asia during the forum held by the International Labor Organization in Makati earlier this week.
The representatives of the forum came from Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor Leste, and Vietnam.In their conclusion, they stressed the important role of labor groups to push for the adoption of inclusive social protection measures in Southeast Asia to “mitigate the negative impacts on workers and their families in the event of a pandemic, climate event, or other natural and man-made disasters.
Also tackled in the document were the appeal for the restoration of democracy in Myanmar and for stakeholders to respect human and labor rights in the Philippines.A crucial step towards ensuring these goals will be achieved, they said, is for the ASEAN to accredit and recognize the ASEAN Trade Union Council to become its “social dialogue partner” in developing its labor policies.
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