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Jakarta 1 month ago

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Jakartans battle floodwaters to reach workplaces

From rubber boats to trucks, workers are forced to make their way through floods on days of heavy rains in the city as their employers often do not provide days off in the event of extreme weather.

Politics 6 months ago

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Workers demand better pay, conditions in nationwide protest

While differing from other recent protests against lawmakers' excessive paychecks, analysts said the rallies by labor unions shared the same calls for the legislature to be more responsive to the public's concerns.

Politics 9 months ago

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Labor group slams foreign worker permit corruption case

Extorting foreign workers and their agents may constitute a violation of workers’ rights as protected in a United Nations’ convention on migrant workers, according to advocacy groups.

Health 5 years ago

Go with the flow: Indonesian women divided over menstrual leave

Indonesia clearly provides menstrual leave for women but in reality, each company implements this rule differently.

National 5 years ago

Amnesty dubs new Omnibus Law 'catastrophic', petition urges no confidence motion

As the human rights group called the new law "catastrophic", a change.org petition is calling for a motion of no confidence against the President and the legislature.

Business 5 years ago

State-owned INTI pays salaries in installments amid financial trouble

The state-owned telecommunication company PT Industri Telekomunikasi Indonesia Persero (INTI) is paying its workers’ salaries in installments on the grounds of financial constraints faced by the company.

Editorial 5 years ago

Returning to work safely

Employers and unions, or any workers’ representative body, can look to businesses in other countries that have designed their own health protocols and to the World Health Organization’s website, which issued guidelines for the workplace in March.

Opinion 5 years ago

Women manufacturing workers hit hardest

Comprising the bulk of workers without a permanent status, women workers are most vulnerable to layoffs and are more likely to be exposed to economic injustice because they depend on daily wages, which in turn depend on production volume. As production tanks, it is these women who are hit hardest.

Opinion 5 years ago

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New challenges for preemployment program

The preemployment card program is indeed relevant to the present condition and future challenges of Indonesia’s labor market. However, the figure does not fully reflect local labor conditions.

Opinion 6 years ago

Omnibus bill on job creation fails to address low worker productivity

So, how will the bill create jobs and train jobseekers, when unemployment was at 6.8 million in February 2019 and millions of others are waiting to be retrained?

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