ASEAN COMMON MARKET IS NO LABOUR FREE-FOR-ALL, BUT LOCAL HR DEPARTMENTS OUTLOOK IS SHIFTING
August 1st, 2016
WITH personnel managers in Britain and continental Europe worrying about the impact of the UK’s Brexit vote to quit the European Union (EU), human resources experts in the 10 country Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) bloc are facing the opposite challenge, an increase in freedom of movement of workers.
There may not have been a major fanfare, but the launch of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) on January 1 this year capped 12 years of negotiations to forge a labour movement zone in south-east Asia. It has included a series of detailed agreements ...
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