The rise of non-standard employment in selected ASEAN countries
The study maps out the different forms of non-standard forms of employment in ASEAN and call for a mix of strategies to address their rise, among others the following: • Organising subcontract/outsource/fixed-term workers using various; structures and modalities; • Extending the coverage of collective bargaining to include non-standard workers; • Bargaining for limitation on the hiring of non-standard workers; • Bargaining for the regularisation of non-regular workers; • Use of multi-employer bargaining strategies; • Forging national framework agreements with the government which is the single biggest employer of non-standard workers; and • Social dialogue through tripartite structures.
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