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The Ethics of ASEAN

employers and the worker union collaborate in tripartite
collaboration to push forth new policies and laws relating to
worker rights, legislation and protection. These policies are
extended across ASEAN with Regional Centre for the Future of
Work under the Ministry of Manpower.
Concerning the future of ethics at work in ASEAN we can
expect an evolution of rules-based ethics in managing work
and workers, results-based ethics with new business models
and emerging ethics from the technology disruptions of AI. It is
important to include the perspectives of youth as the voice of
the future ethics when in any dialogue on the future of work.

Keliane Tea: ASEAN youth should be
encouraged to find their voice and choose
their careers

Kaliane Tea is President of Yuvachun, a volunteer youth group
committed to bringing Cambodians together through art and
cultural activities. She believes that ASEAN youth should be
encouraged to pursue a career of their choice in contrast to
the perspectives of older generations who encourage them to
pursue careers considered with job security and social status.
These differing points of view contribute to a change in work
ethics in ASEAN.
Kaliane reminds us that older Cambodians remember
vastly social circumstances after the Khmer Rouge genocide
of 2 million deaths between 1975 and 1979. Today Cambodia has
a median age of only 26 years old, an employability rate of 85
per cent and a minimum wage of 194 USD. As a consequence,
Cambodian youth have ideals and dreams for their future
Figure 6: Ms. Keliane careers. We should therefore not expect a one-size-fits-all
Tea, Marketing and
Communication Manager ethics of work even inside one country.
at the Soma Group,
Cambodia, and the President For Kaliane ASEAN is steadily becoming a more ethically
of Yuvachun integrated region and the values of respect, inclusion,
collaboration, empathy, and communication are fundamental
despite the region’s diversity. She believes that the region’s
public and private sectors need to promote lifelong
development of employability and create a regional work
environment with opportunities and inclusion of all kinds of
workers.

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