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29 May, 2001Workers are not seeking financial advantages from the decree on severance payment, but worker protection.
INDONESIA: Major trade unions have threatened to continue encouraging mass strikes until the government cancels the review of a ministerial decree on severance payments.
The All-Indonesia Workers Union Federation (FSPSI) has insisted it will never agree to a compromise with the employers' association and the government over the ruling and that it would remain on strike until the now-defunct decree on severance and service payments is reinstated.
The FSPSI will stage another strike on June 11 to put pressure on the government to revive the decree issued last year which guaranteed the rights of resigning and retiring workers to receive severance and service payments. A new decree issued in late April by the minister of manpower annulled the old regulation.
The All-Indonesia Workers Union Federation (FSPSI) has insisted it will never agree to a compromise with the employers' association and the government over the ruling and that it would remain on strike until the now-defunct decree on severance and service payments is reinstated.
The FSPSI will stage another strike on June 11 to put pressure on the government to revive the decree issued last year which guaranteed the rights of resigning and retiring workers to receive severance and service payments. A new decree issued in late April by the minister of manpower annulled the old regulation.