The Mayor Of Serang Monitors Alfamart's THR Payments

Mayor of Serang Syafrudin while monitoring THR payments. (ANTARA/Weli Photo)

SERANG - Mayor of Serang, Banten Syafrudin monitors the payment of holiday allowances (THR) facilitated by the Serang City Manpower Office, located at the Distribution Center (DC) of PT. Source Alfaria Trijaya (Alfamart) Serang, Banten.

Apart from PT. Sumber Alfaria Trijaya being monitored, there are also several other companies such as PT. Catur Sentosa, Fatimah Hospital, PT. Eleven Roses.

The Mayor of Serang, Syafrudin, when conducting monitoring, said that this activity was carried out by the Serang City Government to find out about the benefits that would later be received by all workers in Serang City.

"In addition to PT Sumber Alfaria Trijaya, we also invited several companies, as examples, to ensure that this Circular of the Minister of Manpower is followed up by entrepreneurs, especially in Serang City," he said as quoted by Antara, Wednesday, April 20.

From the monitoring results, he said, the companies, including PT Sumber Alfaria, are ready to pay THR to their workers before the D-7 of Eid.

"According to the Circular of the Minister of Manpower, it is at the latest one week before Eid al-Fitr, the THR must be paid," he said.

The Mayor of Serang emphasized that if there are companies that have not provided benefits to their workers one week before Lebaran, the Serang City Government will take firm action.

"We hope that employers, in the context of providing THR to our employees, are expected to comply with the rules contained in the circular," said Syafrudin.

Meanwhile, the Head of the Manpower Office of the City of Serang, M Ikbal, explained that so far, monitoring activities for THR payments have been carried out on 70 companies in the area.

"From a number of 1,150 companies in Serang City, we focus on 70 companies whose orientation is that they employ more workers, compared to other small companies," said Ikbal.