Part One: Objectives
Article 1: Objectives
The objectives of this Agreement are to:
- Improve working conditions and living standards in each Party's territory;
- Promote, to the maximum extent possible, the labor principles set out in Annex 1;
- Encourage cooperation to promote innovation and rising levels of productivity and quality;
- Encourage publication and exchange of information, data development and coordination, and joint studies to enhance mutually beneficial understanding of the laws and institutions governing labor in each Party's territory;
- Pursue cooperative labor-related activities on the basis of mutual benefit;
- Promote compliance with, and effective enforcement by each Party of, its labor law; and
- foster transparency in the administration of labor law.