Workers Ask For Ojol Driver Work Protection And Prohibition Of Detention Of Diplomas In The New Employment Bill

JAKARTA - The Coalition of Labor- Labor Workers Unions (KSP-PB) provided a number of inputs related to the Employment Bill during an audience with the leadership of the DPR and the Minister of the Red and White Cabinet at the DPR Building today.

During the hearing, KSP-PB requested job protection for online motorcycle taxi workers and drivers (ojol) so that there were no more job seekers and the ban on the detention of diplomas was regulated in the new Employment Bill.

Labor Party representative Said Salahuddin explained that his party included 17 issues in the draft labor bill prepared by KSP-PB. First, about the protection of labor for digital platform workers.

"We ask that it can also be regulated in this new labor law, which is a digital platform or digital platform worker, it is very broad, including online motorcycle taxis and then online couriers and so on, including content creators and so on," Said said in the DPR Commission V meeting room, parliament complex, Senayan, Jakarta, Tuesday, September 30.

Second, workers also ask for arrangements and protection for medical workers, because so far there has been no protection from any law related to medical workers. "This is very sad, if they have struggled for the sake of humanity but their rights do not appear," he said.

In addition, Said assessed, education personnel also need to get protection. Then, the safety of the crew must also be considered.

"There is another question about the crew of the ship which consists of the initial commercial ship and the crew of the fishing boat. Life on the boat, he works on the ship, he sleeps on the ship, works 24 hours the engine dies in the middle, at night the waves, he doesn't have time to stop, there are no working hours. Meanwhile, outside the shipping room or even some are regulated in the PP even in the Permen, even though it is a fundamental right, it should be regulated in the law because he is the material of the law," said Said.

Workers also ask for regulations regarding the prohibition of labor brokers. According to Said, this prohibition must be regulated in the new Employment Law.

"Regarding the ban on labor brokership, this is a new issue that we have asked to emphasize that people can no longer look for work or pass through brokers," he said.

Said also suggested that there be vocational training because so far there have only been overlapping job training and apprenticeship systems. "Equivalents are told to work with wages that are only cost, for example, or replace workers there so that they can get wages, so they can pay low wages," he explained.

"Therefore, the framework is job training in the new labor law, it is only permissible for labor workers, so he must have a working relationship, whether it is carried out by the company, by the government, by the domestic private sector abroad, we have a description here, but he must be limited first," continued Said.

Said also asked for a ban on detaining workers' documents. He considered that the detention of worker documents was unnecessary.

"Regarding the prohibition of detaining documents, we know that many of the cases yesterday were the Ministry of Manpower as well as many reports about detained documents, such as diplomas and so on, that is not the authority of the company to withhold documents, it continues to be stated in the new law," he concluded.