Job terminations by companies should have a clear basis and must be undertaken in accordance with the regulations, including those related to the fulfillment of workers’ rights, the Indonesian Ombudsman has said.

“Within the Manpower Law, there is something called regulatory audits, company’s health, which are reported to the manpower supervisor,” Ombudsman official Belinda Wastitiana Dewanty explained during a media talk show here on Monday.

The Ombudsman monitors whether companies have carried out internal audits and reported the results to the manpower supervisor. Based on these reports, the companies’ conditions can be determined, including the likelihood of their cutting jobs.

Once a consistent audit is submitted to the manpower supervisor at the central and regional levels, then the necessary mitigation steps can be undertaken.

If job terminations are unavoidable, then the Ombudsman prefers that companies follow the specified mechanism and scheme, Dewanty stressed.

“If the option is work termination, there are certainly labor employment rights that must be guaranteed by the companies and the manpower supervisor also oversees this,” she explained.

During the talk show, Ombudsman member Robert Na Endi Jaweng informed that the government has to take a conducive policy.

This is because the condition of the global economy is also affecting local manpower sectors, especially export-oriented sectors such as textile and footwear industries.

“We are not in a good situation,” he noted.

Earlier, Jaweng informed that the Ombudsman has urged the Manpower Ministry and regional manpower offices to scrutinize the audits of companies to mitigate job terminations.

During a certain period, companies are audited by the public accountant office, he informed at a virtual press conference on December 1, 2022.

The results of the audit must be examined to gauge the trend within the company, he added.

Source: Antara News