ASEAN Guidelines for CSR on Labour adopted at the 24th ASEAN Labour Ministers Meeting

The ASEAN Guidelines for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) on Labour was adopted at the 24th ASEAN Labour Ministers Meeting which was convened on 15th May 2016 in Vientiane, Lao PDR. This is intended to serve as a guide for governments, enterprises and establishments, employers’ and workers’ organisations to raise awareness of labour issues among enterprises and incorporate CSR, human rights and decent work into their business practices.

For more details of the communique stating the adoption of the guidelines, please click here. 

To read more about the details of the specific ASEAN Guidelines for CSR on Labour, please download the document from here. 

Prior to this meeting, the Thai Ministry of Labour organised a workshop in March 2016 to draft the ASEAN CSR Model on Labour. ASEAN CSR Network’s CEO, Mr. Thomas Thomas, was one of the resource persons at the workshop, together with representatives from the ASEAN Member States. Also present was International Labour Organisation representative Mr. Charles Bodwell and ASEAN secretariat representative Ms Mega Irena. For more details, please click here.

Please click here and here for the report