The Minister Of Manpower Explains The Upper And Lower Limits Of The Minimum Wage In Front Of The DPR: To Reduce The Gap

Minister of Manpower Ida Fauziyah during a working meeting with Commission IX of the DPR RI in Jakarta, Monday, November 15 (Photo: Prisca Triferna/Antara)

JAKARTA - The Minister of Manpower (Menaker) Ida Fauziyah said that there are upper and lower limits in determining the minimum wage contained in Government Regulation (PP) Number 36 of 2021 concerning Wages aimed at reducing the wage gap between regions. regional minimum wage gap so that justice between regions can be realized," said Minister of Manpower Ida Fauziyah in a working meeting with Commission IX of the DPRI RI in Jakarta, reported by Antara, Monday, November 15. formula for the upper and lower limits of a region's minimum wage. The formula for calculating the upper and lower limits itself has been described in Article 26 in PP No. 36 of 2021, which is a derivative rule of the Job Creation Law. The adjustment formula based on the upper and lower limits is one of the new rules stipulated in PP No. 36 of 2021, which replaces PP No. 78 of 2015 concerning Wages.

The effort to reduce the gap, said Ida, is to avoid conditions where a region with a low minimum wage cannot continue to pursue other regions and arrive at the ideal point of wages. said Ida. Adjustment and determination of the minimum wage is carried out based on one of which is economic growth or inflation of a region. later there will be no minimum wage below the lower limit. Because once there is a province whose provincial minimum wage is below the lower limit, it must be set at that limit, "said Ida.*