Singapore resources

September 2014

  1. 7th AFML: Presentation on ACE Preparatory Meeting for 7th ASEAN Forum on Migrant Labour

    Mr Mohd Zakri Baharudin, ASEAN Confederation of Employers

  2. 7th AFML: Presentation on CSO Response to the 7th AFML Background paper: Progress on the Recommendations adopted at the previous ASEAN Forums on Migrant Labour

    Ms Camelita G. Nuqui, the Philippines Migrant Rights Watch

  3. 7th AFML: Presentation on Vietnamese implementation of Recommendations from the 3rd to 6th AFML

    Mr Nguyen Hai Ly, Deputy Head of Japan, EU and ASEAN Division, Department of Overseas Labor, Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs, Viet Nam

  4. 7th AFML: Presentation on Background Paper: Progress on the Recommendations adopted at past meetings of the AFML

    Mr Manuel Imson, Senior Programme Officer and Project Coordinator, ILO ASEAN TRIANGLE Project, International Labour Organization

  5. APYouthNet Talk show #35 - Tan Chuan-Jin, Unlocking Singapore's recipe for youth employment

    Singapore Minister for Manpower, Tan Chuan-Jin discusses his country's competitive labour market and its low youth employment rate of 6.7 per cent. He describes Singapore’s inter-ministerial co-operation in view to implement and safeguard Singapore's immigration, manpower, education and economic policies.

August 2014

  1. Task Force on ASEAN Migrant Workers: Post-6th ASEAN Forum on Migrant Labour GMS Consultation on good practice to improve Complaint Mechanism

    15 - 16 August 2014

    The TFAMW organized the GMS consultation to review, discuss and exchange good practices among civil society stakeholders on ways to effective implement and improve existing complaint mechanisms. The GMS Consultation Workshop facilitated the documentation of forms and procedures in use to file complaints, claims and appeals against abuses and discrimination during the full cycle of migration. The full cycle of migration includes pre-departure – recruitment agencies, training, fees paid for the legal processing to work overseas; post-arrival – working and living conditions, terms of employment, and returning – unfair dismissals, non-payment of due wages and other claims.

July 2014

  1. ASEAN regional integration: challenges and opportunities, a senior executive seminar

    9 - 10 July 2014

    The seminar aims to facilitate an understanding of the challenges and opportunities ASEAN Members States will face in regulating labour migration in the context of regional integration, drawing where appropriate, on the experience of regional harmonization in the European Union.

June 2014

  1. ILO and Singapore renew Partnership Agreement to improve labour and workplace practices in Southeast Asia

    Involves cooperation on issues concerning productivity, occupational safety and health, tripartism and social dialogue.

May 2014

  1. Regional Director's remarks at the 23rd Meeting of ASEAN Labour Minsters

    By Mr Yoshiteru Uramoto, ILO Assistant Director-General and Regional Director, ILO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific at the 23rd Meeting of ASEAN Labour Minsters, Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar, on 22 May 2014

April 2014

  1. Report - ILO Consultation/Validation Workshop On the Implementation of Mutual Recognition of Skills in ASEAN Countries, 24-26 September 2014, Sari Pan Pacific Hotel, Jakarta, Indonesia

    Report - ILO Consultation/Validation Workshop On the Implementation of Mutual Recognition of Skills in ASEAN Countries, 24-26 September 2014, Sari Pan Pacific Hotel, Jakarta, Indonesia