Legal and Institutional Reforms for Improved Labour Market Governance (The Myanmar Labour Market Governance Programme)

The primary challenges for Myanmar in promoting sound labour market governance are not limited to the development of modern and responsive laws and regulations. Throughout the process, ensuring the necessary capacity exists and ensuring that the process is sufficiently open and consultative are essential. Moreover, the individual parts cannot be viewed – or addressed – independently of each other, or of the whole. The interactions between the laws and regulations, their implementation and enforcement, as well as the support to systems for dialogue and dispute settlement and prevention, have informed the programmatic approach herein. Enabling laws, coupled with compliance through a modern labour inspectorate, an improved system for dispute prevention and resolution and capable actors who are able to engage in social dialogue must work together – in a holistic and coherent fashion – to sustain the reform process. This project will attempt to contribute to the ongoing labour law reform process in Myanmar through strengthening the capacity of the Government, employers and workers organizations in developing a labour law framework and its application.

Project symbol

MMR/16/06/NLD

Admin unit

ILO-Yangon

Start date

01/01/2017

End date

31/07/2018

Total allocation

64798

Total expenditure

Status

Closed

64798

Development Partners

Netherlands, Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment

Country/Countries

Myanmar

Outcomes

Outcome 2: International labour standards and authoritative and effective supervision