Participants in this session work together to create a strategy and draw up a list of essential rules to effectively regulate private recruitment agencies.

Participants in this session break out into two groups to make a list of recommendations or guidelines on what should be included in a standard employment contract and how it should be used.

In Taipei,China, the policy is to encourage foreign professionals to work in areas where there is underemployment.

Thailand considers itself as a labor-receiving country rather than a labor-sending country; yet it still has a shortage of manpower, especially in manufacturing.

The Philippines has bilateral labor agreements with 27 countries as of October 2018. Twelve out of the 43 agreements have provisions related to mutual recognition of skills and qualifications.