DAVAO CITY, Davao del Sur, Sept
29 (PIA) -- It’s fight or flight for the
licensed Filipino workforce when global competition sets in by 2015 as a result
of the full implementation of the (Association of Southeast Asian Nations
(Asean) Economic Community (AEC).
This was the challenge made by
Philippine Regulation Commission (PRC) Commissioner Jennifer Jardin-Manalili to
the 46 PRC-regulated professions that will have to compete with the Asean
workforce.
The 46 professions belong the
four general areas including business; social and management; medical and
health; and engineering and technology.
“The AEC will be characterized
not only by free flow of capital and goods but also the free movement of
services and skilled labor,” she said.
This is the reason why PRC is
holding the series of Basic Free Trade Areas Information Sessions in different
parts of the country before the Convergence of Professional for National
Building and Global Competitiveness Summit in October. The Davao leg, which is
the fourth, was held last week.
Manalili said the professions
have to come up with their own road maps so that our workforce will be ready
when we open up even our services sector to the Asean countries. She added this
is no longer just free trade of goods but also free trade of services.
“We are doing everything to
prepare our workforce for 2015 because while it means Asean workers can already
enter the country to work, it can also mean that our professionals will also
get the chance to work in other Asean countries,” she added.
The AEC will facilitate the
movement of people in the Asean Region and our professionals better be ready to
compete with other professionals from these countries, she said.
The country implemented two
strategies to meet the liberalization of professional workers by 2015. “One is
the rapid assessments of professions where they will come up with competitive
road maps and the other strategy is the holding of the Professional Summit.”
Carmencita A. Carillo
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