9 Reports Of Substandard Employee Salaries That Were Brought By The South Sumatra Manpower And Transmigration Office To The Police Up To The Level Of Investigation

Labor illustration. (Antaranews)

SUMSEL - A number of reports related to cases of alleged companies providing substandard wages were processed by the Manpower and Transmigration Office of South Sumatra Province (Disnakertrans Sumsel).

There were nine reports of employee salaries that did not match the provincial, district and city minimum wages (UMP/UMK) which were continued by the South Sumatra Manpower and Transmigration Office to legal channels. The report was received from the South Sumatra trade union in the last few months.

In the process, all of the reported companies have now gone up to the level of investigation by the South Sumatra Regional Police (Polda) which in the next week will announce the determination of the suspect status.

"Regarding the allegation of giving the company a wage shortfall this week ahead, the South Sumatra Police have designated a suspect status," said the Head of the South Sumatra Manpower and Transmigration Office, Koimudin, after meeting a mass demonstration among workers at the South Sumatra Governor's Office regarding demands for a wage increase, in Palembang, quoted from Between, Wednesday 15 June.

Although he did not mention in detail the locus of the company and the types of violations reported regarding the payment of wages, Koimudin confirmed that the PPNS investigators and police officers had fulfilled the elements of violating the law by the company.

"There are those who claim that there is no budget and various other things, but all of the reported companies have fulfilled the elements (of violating the law)," he said.

He said that through the certainty of the legal process, it proved that the provincial government was very serious and did not side with anyone in fighting for the rights of workers' wages in South Sumatra.

In this case, the worker or worker has the right to receive wages according to the applicable rules and regulations that must be realized by the employer.

Koimudin said the amount of the UMP that was applied for this year was Rp. 3.144 million. Likewise, the average UMK for each region is around Rp. 3.2 million, or areas that do not set a minimum UMK must at least adjust it based on the UMP value.

"We, the provincial government are not playing games and are not taking sides in fighting for the rights of workers' wages, everything must comply with the rules for the amount of the UMP/UMK value that has been determined," he said again.