The final day of APEC brought together all economics to deliberate on the labour marketing and social inclusion.
Discussions focussed on using APEC as the regulating commission to deliberate on all issues affecting the labor market across the Asia pacific region.
The data availability was the main challenging issues that got deliberated on by economies who experienced some form of a loop hole in collecting reliable data to analyse the challenges brought about and faced by all economics.
The idea going forward is to come up with reporting mechanisms and templates which all economics report that will later be used to determine the type of workforce that is available in the region and how labour can be utilized. When there is a proper reporting mechanism and sharing, the flow of labour social protection and skill labor recruitment is possible to achieve with ease.
The challenge again is to draw research data from private and public sectors.
Secretary for Labour and Industry, Mary Morrola and Deputy Secretary, Jeanne Sliviak from the Department for Community Development and Religion, Marie Eorage, Deputy Director APEC Secretariat PNG, all contributed to the discussion in the areas of;
- Enhancing Labour Market
- Employment Services as Infrastructure
- Social Protection knowledge sharing
- Social Security programs in the APEC region
- Commission on Future of Work
These are the key areas which received overwhelming support from all economies as the challenges the needs to be addressed regrading APEC labour issues.