Conference Day 1 (3 December 2020)

Check the program below. Links to respective Zoom meetings will be posted here, but passwords will be shared privately. Please keep a copy of the online conference brochure at all times so that you will be able to join the meetings. Please click on the title or code link to access the presentation abstract.

Morning Sessions

Opening Ceremony
9:00 AM – 10:20 AM (Philippine Time)

Opening ceremony speakers
EventSpeaker
Start of ProgramPhilippine National Anthem
Welcome RemarksDanilo L. Concepcion
President
University of the Philippines (UP)
Ronahlee A. Asuncion
Dean
School of Labor and Industrial Relations
University of the Philippines
Sergio R. Ortiz-Luis
President
Employers Confederation of the Philippines
Raymond Democrito C. Mendoza
President
Trade Union Congress of the Philippines
Secretary Silvestre H. Bello III
Department of Labor and Employment
Khalid Hassan
Director
ILO Country Office for the Philippines

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Plenary Session 1
10:30 AM – 11:50 AM (Philippine Time)
Future Work Patterns due to New Technology,
Changing Demographics and Climate Change
Chair: Maragtas Amante, UP School of Labor and Industrial Relations

Plenary Session 1 Speakers
Title Speaker
Prolonged working lives, older workers and dismissals:
A study of the dynamics between employment protection, non-discrimination and collective bargaining		Mia Rönnmar
Lund University, Sweden
The impact of technology on changing
patterns of work in Asia		Paul Vandenberg
Asian Development Bank, Manila
Labor control and worker voice in global supply chains:
Bangladesh in comparative perspective		Mark Sebastian Anner
Pennsylvania State University

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Afternoon Sessions

Plenary Session 2
1:00 PM – 2:20 PM (Philippine Time)
Voice and representation in the context of
Industry 4.0 and the digital economy
Chair: Dong-One Kim, Korea University Business School

Plenary Session 2 Speakers
TitleSpeaker
Representation models and forms of collective action of workers in the platform economyMelisa Serrano
(School of Labor and Industrial Relations
University of the Philippines)
Global labour unrest on platforms. The case of food delivery workersVera Trappmann and Mark Stuart
(University of Leeds)
Worker voice in the context of Industry 4.0 and the digital economy: The UNI-Apro initiativesRajendra Kumar Acharya
(UNI Global Union Asia Pacific Regional Organization)

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Concurrent Session A1: Technology and Work
2:30 PM – 3:50 PM (Philippine Time)
Chair: Ronahlee Asuncion, UP School of Labor and Industrial Relations

Concurrent Session A1 Speakers
CodeTitleAuthor
A101Technology, labor, and inequality:
Examining Philippine firms through a task-based framework		Rolly Czar Joseph Castillo,
Marie-Emilie de la Cruz
Labor Education and Research Network
A102Digital Economy and the future of WorkJi Wenwen
China University of Labor Relations
A103The changing concept of rural women’s work and role:
The case of the Pambansang Koalisyon ng Kababaihan sa Kanayunan (PKKK)		Rebecca Gaddi
UP School of Labor and Industrial Relations

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Concurrent Session A2: Future Work Patterns
2:30 PM – 3:50 PM (Philippine Time)
Chair: Rosalio Aragon Jr., UP School of Labor and Industrial Relations

Concurrent Session A2 Speakers
CodeTitleSpeaker
A201Cities and Jobs: Evidence from Labor Force
Surveys from Four Asian Economies		Glenita Amoranto
Eugenia Go
Rana Hasan
Yi Jiang
Asian Development Bank
A203Does automation and technology create more jobs than it destroys?
The case of the Philippines		Emily Christi Cabegin
UP School of Labor and Industrial Relations

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Concurrent Session A3: Graduate Student Forum 1
2:30 PM – 3:50 PM (Philippine Standard Time)
Chair: Giovanni Francis Legaspi, UP School of Labor and Industrial Relations

Concurrent Session A3 Speakers
CodeTitleAuthor
A301The Influence of Regulated Labor Standards to New Forms of Work:
A Policy Assessment on Maximizing Human Capital in Pursuit for Decent Work		Jonathan Paolo Clerigo
UP School of Labor and Industrial Relations
A302Life stories of successful men with same-sex attraction at workJemos de Guzman
Philippine Seven Corporation
A304Mental health programs, compassion fatigue and job stress of Filipino human resource professionalsAngelbert Hernandez*
Carmelina Cheng
(University of the Philippines)
Lanilaine Parreño
ABS-CBN Lingkod Kapamilya Foundation

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Concurrent Session C1: Riders on the storm: Organization and collective action of transport workers in the platform economy
4:00 – 5:20 PM (Philippine Time)
Chair: Mirko Herberg, Global Trade Union Programme,
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), Germany

Concurrent Session C1 Speakers
CodeTitleAuthor
C101Resisting Exploitation by Algorithms: Drivers’ Contestation of App-based Transport in IndonesiaFahmi Panimbang
Sedane Labour Resource Centre Indonesia
C102Safety for the public, rights for the driver: South Korea’s transport workers campaign for safe ratesAelim Yun
Seoul National University
C103DiscussantSangam Tripathy
International Transport Workers
Federation India

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Concurrent Session C2: Trade union strategies
4:00 – 5:20 PM (Philippine Time)
Chair: Jorge Sibal, UP School of Labor and Industrial Relations

Concurrent Session C2 Speakers
CodeTitleAuthor
C201Variety of civil society organizations: historical cases of KoreaDong-One Kim*
Nabilera Kang
Minju Shin
Korea University
C202Labour market, corporate governance, and employee
voice and silence in the post-bubble Japan		Ryohei Nakagawa
The University of Nagano
C203Spaces, constraints and tensions: Strategies of trade unions and NGOs in organizing migrant domestic workers in MalaysiaVerna Dinah Viajar
UP School of Labor and Industrial Relations

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Concurrent Session C3: The Philippine Trade Union Movement
4:00 – 5:20 PM (Philippine Standard Time)
Chair: Lorenzo Ziga, UP School of Labor and Industrial Relations

Concurrent Session C3 Speakers
CodeTitleAuthor
C301First Quarter Storm and the Labor Movement
in the Philippines 		Ronahlee Asuncion
UP School of Labor and Industrial Relations
C302Laban ng PALEA: union renewal strategies
amidst the outsourcing dispute at Philippine Airlines		Benjamin Velasco
UP School of Labor and Industrial Relations
C303Balancing social movement unionism,
political unionism and traditional
collective bargaining in Philippine worker voice and representation		Maragtas Amante
UP School of Labor and Industrial Relations

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