If a company finds that the continuity of its business operations is being severely affected by the pandemic, then the following measures can be implemented in order to prevent the termination of employment relationships: 1) Adjustment to the place of work; 2) Gradual reduction in facilities and/or benefits that are available to employees; 3) Granting of pension and/or early pension applications; and so forth
JKP benefits are granted to participants who have their employment terminated, including working relationships that are based on work agreements for specific timeframes (PKWT) and work agreements for unspecified timeframes (PKWTT). Said participants must also be willing to work again
As a result of re-composition process, the rates for the work-accident insurance program now break down as follows: 1) Very-low risk: 0.10% of the monthly wage; 2) Low risk: 0.40% of the monthly wage; 3) Medium risk: 0.75% of the monthly wage; 4) High risk: 1.13% of the monthly wage; and 5) Very-high risk: 1.60% of the monthly wage. Meanwhile, the rate for the life-insurance program has now been set at 0.20% of the monthly wage
Employers are now also required to report the transfers of technologies and skills from the foreign workers to their understudies
The standards apply to the following areas: 1) Business activities that have been clearly classified under the Indonesian Standard Industrial Classification (Klasifikasi Baku Lapangan Usaha Indonesia - "KBLI"); and 2) Business activities and/or products which have not been classified but which relate to business activities set out under the KBLI
Employers are required to register their employees under the government Work-Accident Insurance (Jaminan Kecelakaan Kerja/JKK), Life Insurance (Jaminan Kematian/JKM) and Old-Age Benefit (Jaminan Hari Tua/JHT) programs run by the Social Security Agency for Employment (BPJS Ketenagakerjaan)
Premiums of Unemployment Insurance Program should be paid on a monthly basis at a rate of 0.46% of the relevant monthly wage. This amount is to be borne by the following: 1) The central government (i.e. 0.22% of the relevant monthly wage); and 2) JKP sources of funding in the form of re-composition of premiums for the Work Accident Insurance (Jaminan Kecelakaan Kerja/JKK) and the Life Insurance (Jaminan Kematian/JKM) programs, which will result in adjustments being made to the premiums for these programs
Minimum wages are now to be determined based on the prevailing employment and economic conditions (which encompass various variables, including purchasing power parity, manpower absorption levels and median wage) instead of being based on decent living standards, as they previously were
Work agreements for specific timeframes (perjanjian kerja waktu tertentu - "PKWT") are categorized into the following: 1) PKWT based on time period, which can be implemented for a maximum period of five years and which can also be extended for a further five years at the maximum; and 2) PKWT based on the completion of certain amounts of work, which can be implemented for periods which depend on agreements between employers and workers and which be extended until the work in question is ultimately completed
Employers of TKA are first required to secure RPTKA authorizations. RPTKA authorizations themselves comprise four categories: 1) RPTKA for temporary work; 2) RPTKA for work of more than six months; 3) RPTKA for non-DKPTKA; and 4) RPTKA for special economic zones