ABSTRACT Of late, there have been efforts towards regional harmonisation of industrial relations (IR) systems in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). IR systems are closely linked to labour law systems. This research looks into ASEAN labour law systems as plausibly occupying loci or points along a continuum. At one end might be systems influenced by the legal family of civil law; at the other could be those swayed by the legal family of common law. In between, there is likely a gamut of systems having endogenous origins, hybrids of civil Law and common law, trichotomies that include customary or indigenous law, among others. Is it possible to harmonise or transfer labour laws across ASEAN? What have been the approaches to labour market regulation? Using a comparative case study method, this paper attempts to answer these questions and delves into examples from the Philippines and Malaysia to show that the path to harmonising or transferring labour laws within ASEAN is long and difficult in light of critical stumbling blocks, such as methodological nationalism, legal endemism, diverging epistemological assumptions, and modes of legal reasoning of labour laws.

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统一劳动法：东盟的艰辛历程

摘要最近，东南亚国家联盟（ASEAN）一直致力于区域协调劳资关系（IR）系统。投资者关系系统与劳动法制度紧密相连。这项研究将东盟劳动法制度看成是一个连续体上可能占据的位置或点。一方面，可能是受大陆法系法律体系影响的制度；另一类可能是受到普通法系法律的影响。在这两者之间，可能存在各种各样的系统，这些系统具有内在的渊源，大陆法和普通法的混合体，包括习惯法或土著法在内的三分法。是否有可能在整个东盟范围内统一或转移劳动法？劳动力市场监管的方法是什么？使用比较案例研究方法，