Until April 7, More Than 1 Million Employees Have Been Laid Off

Illustration of Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay

JAKARTA - The Covid-19 outbreak in this country has not yet reached its peak. This war is still long. But never mind, the number of employees who have been laid off due to this pandemic has already reached a million people.

Based on data from the Ministry of Manpower as of April 7, 2020, the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, the formal sector that was laid off and laid off was as many as 39,977 companies. Meanwhile, the number of workers / laborers / laborers was 1,010,579 people.

In detail, as many as 873,090 workers / laborers from 17,224 companies were dismissed and dismissed as many as 137,489 workers / laborers from 22,753 companies.

Meanwhile, the number of companies and workers affected in the informal sector was 34,453 companies and the number of workers was 189,452 people.

"The total number of companies laying off workers and layoffs was 74,430 with 1,200,031 workers / laborers / laborers," said Minister of Manpower (Menaker) Ida Fauziyah as quoted from the official website of the Ministry of Manpower, Wednesday (8/4/2020) .

The government is not just responding to this. Ida admitted that he had held a dialogue with the Indonesian Employers' Association (Apindo) from various business sectors. This includes dialogue with trade unions regarding the impact of Covid-19 on the business world.

Ida asked all companies to make the Termination of Employment (PHK) policy the last step they had to take. Ida promised to continue to invite entrepreneurs to discuss to find solutions to overcome the impact of Covid-19.

A Solution

Those who have been laid off are now trying to be empowered in labor-intensive programs. One of them involved the laid-off workers to spray disinfectants on a number of companies.

"We are involved in laying workers affected by Covid-19 to spray disinfectants as a form of empowerment for them," said Plt. Director General of Binwasnaker & Occupational Safety and Health (K3), Ministry of Manpower, Iswandi Hari.

In the last two months, the Ministry of Manpower has made data to involve the victims of layoffs and those affected by Covid-19 into disinfecting spraying troops. Locations targeted for spraying at 20 points in industrial estates. They were given an incentive of Rp. 300 000 / person.