Deepening regional economic integration and globalization accelerates structural changes in products and labour markets in East Asia.  It also accelerated economic and social changes which make it imperative that the government and social actors should be able to manage this dynamic process of changes.

Some industrial relations system has proven to be an essential social and economic institution to manage this dynamic change.  Each country in East Asia has developed unique systems of industrial relations, and gained rich experiences of institutional innovations in their efforts to cope with the challenges posed by industrialization, crisis and transition.  At the same time, each country with unique values, practices and institutions of IR is striving to cope with the common challenges associated with deepening regional and global economic integration.

The aim of this project is to create an East Asian Knowledge Base for Industrial Relations Innovations and Mutual Learning.  It will serve as a powerful tool for industrial relations through  mutual learning and sharing of unique industrial relations experiment from each other. The sharing of experiences and innovations will help form a common vision for sound industrials relations in East Asia with a full recognition of diversity of industrial relations system of each country as well as the universal principles embodied in the ILO Standards.

Activities

ASEAN-Japan IR project meeting in May 2006, Singapore

Research & development of a Regional report & National reports on IR

Development of East Asian IR Website

Collaboration with ASEAN - Japan IR Project

In order to coordinate and collaborate with ASEAN – Japan IR project, ASEAN-Japan IR web has been developed in this first stage through the initiative of Government of Singapore supported by ILO/Japan Programme.   The web will eventually be incorporated into ILO/Japan East Asian IR Web in its final development.

www.aseanirnet.org