APINDO: Workers Don't Overtime Too Much, The Cost Is Expensive

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JAKARTA - The Indonesian Employers' Association (APINDO) said that the information circulating in cyberspace related to the Omnibus Law on Job Creation is misleading (misleading). Workers and workers who object to this law are deemed to have paid less attention to the points.

Chairman of the Committee on Manpower and Social Security for Wages, the Indonesian Employers 'Association (APINDO), Aloysius Budi Santoso said that there are no workers' rights or labor, in this case leave, is removed. For example, leave from menstruation to childbirth.

He emphasized that if it was not included in the Job Creation Law regarding menstrual leave to childbirth, the company would still allow workers to take leave. Because, this rule is still included in Law Number 13 of 2003 concerning Manpower.

"Then the important thing to understand is that if menstrual leave is not included in the Job Creation Law, then Law Number 13 Year 2003 is still in effect," he said in Jakarta, Friday, October 9.

This member of the Work Creation Omnibus Law Formulation Team said, thus there is no reason for the company not to provide special leave rights for these women workers.

"So articles 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, and 85 in Law Number 13 of 2003 are still valid. So we as entrepreneurs must still give our employees the right to take leave related to menstruation, childbirth and so on," he said.

Not only that, Budi also cleared up misconceptions about working time. According to him, the working hours are not much different, even relatively the same. However, he admitted, there was an increase in overtime.

Even so, Budi emphasized that even businessmen would not make their employees work overtime every day, even though this was possible. Because, this is also related to costs or wages.

"Again, we straighten out the many hoaxes and claims in the public. One time, the work is relatively the same, then the overtime can be more. But we, as entrepreneurs, of course, if possible, our employees should not continue overtime. Because the cost is also expensive," he said.

According to Budi, the difference between Law Number 13 Year 2003 and the Omnibus Law on Job Creation is only about 3 to 4 hours.

"The most important thing is related to the leave in the Job Creation Law, there is 12 days of leave and all kinds of 1 year. If there is more than that it is regulated in an agreement or PKB," he said.