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Boss sentenced for forbidding labor unions
The Supreme Court has upheld a lower court ruling about Hariyanto Hutomo Hidayat, the president director of furniture company PT Sri Rejeki Mebelindo, who was convicted of forbidding the formation of a labor union in the company
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he Supreme Court has upheld a lower court ruling about Hariyanto Hutomo Hidayat, the president director of furniture company PT Sri Rejeki Mebelindo, who was convicted of forbidding the formation of a labor union in the company.
Hariyanto dismissed 107 employees from the company, which operated in Pasuruan, East Java, after they started a labor union in 2009 to bargain for salaries that had been kept below the regional standard.
Bangil District Court sentenced him to one year in prison for violating Article 28 of the Labor Unions Law that bans anyone from prohibiting the establishment of labor unions. The East Java High Court later increased the sentence to 18 months, a ruling that was upheld by the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court has also ruled that Hariyanto was guilty of violating Article 185 of the Labor Law as he had paid his employees below the regional standard.
Hariyanto, however, was nowhere to be found when the verdict was announced.
'He has fled abroad,' claimed labor activist M. Jamal on Wednesday, as quoted by detik.com.
