By: Zakaria )*
The Coalition for Action to Save Indonesia (KAMI) continues to provoke the community amid the Covid-19 Pandemic. The public also rejected OUR provocation to take advantage of labor demonstrations because it only made things worse.
The Presidium of the Coalition for Action to Save Indonesia (KAMI) Gatot Nurmantyo requested that our network throughout Indonesia and all civil society movements collaborate with labor groups who reject the omnibus Law on Cipta Kerja which is currently being discussed in the Indonesian Parliament. He argued that saving Indonesia was among others by thwarting the ratification of the Job Creation Bill.
However, we need to understand that the idea of the Omnibus Law on the Job Creation Bill is actually President Jokowi’s disappointment due to the lack of investment in Indonesia.
Even though investment is one of the economic drivers, especially in the era of the digital economy. One of Jokowi’s predictions is that complicated regulations, bureaucracy and laws make investment unattractive.
Gatot assessed that one of the contents of the draft Job Creation Bill appeared to be removing severance pay for workers / laborers who were laid off because they were about to enter retirement age. The government has abolished article 167 UUK which regulates severance pay for workers / laborers who have been laid off due to entering retirement age.
Therefore, Gatot also strongly supports the National Strike which will be carried out by all Workers.
However, in fact, the severance pay scheme was not abolished. Secretary of the Director General of Industrial Relations (PHI) and Labor Social Security, Ministry of Manpower (Kemnaker) Adriani, said severance pay would not be eliminated in the work copyright omnibus law.
He said that severance pay was not abolished, but how could the severance pay actually be implemented.
In addition, Adriani said, both workers with a certain time work agreement (PKWT) and workers with an unspecified time work agreement (PKWTT) would still get labor social security.
The Ministry of Manpower also said that the minimum wage would not be eliminated. Adriani said that the hourly wage the government was discussing was the wage for workers in certain sectors.
Adriani also said that the work copyright omnibus law would not eliminate criminal sanctions for entrepreneurs. According to him, if employers violate workers’ rights, this will certainly continue to be processed, starting from administrative sanctions to criminal sanctions.
Gatot also said that the draft Job Creation Bill did not include the right to take 2 months of sabbatical for workers / laborers who had worked for 6 years continuously and submitted the regulation to the company or the agreed cooperation agreement.
This was apparently also conveyed by the Minister of Manpower Ida Fauziyah, who ensured that this leave right was not removed in the Omnibus Law on Job Creation.
Ida referred to one of the articles which was allegedly an attempt to remove the rights of these workers. According to him, the article does not regulate the provisions for leave. So that the rules that apply are still Law Number 13 of 2003.
He said that one of the things expected by the existence of this Omnibus Law is certainty of protection for workers. One of them, as he has often said before, is the provision of severance pay for victims of layoffs.
Meanwhile, Ida said, by maximizing the work hours of 8 hours a day, people who want to work less than 8 hours can still get a job. Ida said that the scheme is much sought after by IRTs and millennials.
He revealed that there are many housewives who want to work but only have 3 hours. Lots of millennial children who don’t want to work in one place with a duration of 8 hours.
With this scheme, the government will later be able to provide technical provisions related to wage and protection schemes for people who work under 8 hours.
Ida hopes that with this rule, the millennial generation population who will dominate Indonesia can be accommodated with decent work.
On different occasions, the President of the Republic of Indonesia, Joko Widodo, said that he would reduce the number of working hours of workers. This pruning has been stated in the draft Work Creation Omnibus Law Bill.
In the draft, it is written that employers are obliged to implement the stipulated working time for a maximum of 8 hours a day and 40 hours in 1 week.
This regulation is of course effective if it is implemented, therefore it is important to deepen the substantive aspects of the Job Creation Bill and remain careful with any provocation from parties who are looking for a stage.
)* The author is a citizen living in Bogor