Affiliation(s)
Department of Global Culture Industry Management, Calvin University, Yongin, Republic of Korea
Department of Global Culture Industry Management, Calvin University, Yongin, Republic of Korea
ABSTRACT
Massive academics are at
say of deregulations and institutional convergence in employment relations
across the globe, be them in advanced or emerging economies. To benefit of
doubt: Is it really in all countries in the world? Or are they the
representative stories? Thus, the objective of this paper is to explore the
recent context of industrial and labor relations in Nepal. To this end, the
authors consider the recent Labor Act of 2017 as the fundamental basis for the
examination of employment relations against the growing deregulations and
institutional convergence in the neo-liberal contexts of post-globalization,
highly competitive markets, export-oriented business, super digital
technological advancement and increased labor migration abroad. The Labor Act
of 2017 shows that the employment relations is around the system approach with
collective bargaining, collective dispute settlement and the provision of
arbitration, mediation or third-party system, to name a few. This indicates
that the employment relations of deregulations and institutional convergence in
the advanced and emerging economics, including Asia are some of the
representative ones. In that the factors to influence such employment relations
vary across the countries even though there has been increased competition,
digitalization, labor migration and knowledge-intensive work around. In
contrary, within the local, national context or institutional labor framework, the
actors and the path dependence of overall employment relations do matter in the
study of changing employment relations. Thus, the Labor Act of 2017 in Nepal is
put into consideration as a case study to acknowledge the employment relations
against the changing, global one. Further, the story would contribute to
revitalization of industrial and labor relations and divergence of employment
relations in the pool of literatures.
KEYWORDS
critical juncture,
deregulations, institutional convergence, Labor Act of 2017, Nepal
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