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Sat, 08/30/2008 - 09:26
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CONCERN ABOUT MASS WORKER LAYOFFS PROVEN UNFOUNDED : MINISTER
Yogyakarta, Aug 29 (ANTARA) - Manpower and Transmigration Minister Erman Suparno said concern about the possibility of mass worker layoffs as a result of the fuel oil price hikes had not materialized.
"There were no mass worker layoffs because the problem could be handled and manged properly," the minister said after a meeting with Yoyakarta Governor Sri Sultan Hamengku Buwono X here on Friday.
He said in the first semester of 2008 11,500 wrokers were laid off while in the whole year of 2007 the number of workers who lost their job reached 25,000.
Previously, the number of layoffs in 2006 was recorded at 36,000 which represented a sharp decrease from 2005 when 109,000 workers became unemployed.
"This is thanks to and a result of the conducive and harmonious labor industrial relations programs where the government encouraged bipartite negotiations between workers and employers so that companies did not carry out mass layoffs," the minister said.
Suparno said the layoffs that had happened in the first semester of this year were partial in nature. Most of the 11,500 workers laid off in the first semester were workers of mismanaged companies not of disputes over the labor industrial relations due to bankruptcy.
"There were no mass worker layoffs because the problem could be handled and manged properly," the minister said after a meeting with Yoyakarta Governor Sri Sultan Hamengku Buwono X here on Friday.
He said in the first semester of 2008 11,500 wrokers were laid off while in the whole year of 2007 the number of workers who lost their job reached 25,000.
Previously, the number of layoffs in 2006 was recorded at 36,000 which represented a sharp decrease from 2005 when 109,000 workers became unemployed.
"This is thanks to and a result of the conducive and harmonious labor industrial relations programs where the government encouraged bipartite negotiations between workers and employers so that companies did not carry out mass layoffs," the minister said.
Suparno said the layoffs that had happened in the first semester of this year were partial in nature. Most of the 11,500 workers laid off in the first semester were workers of mismanaged companies not of disputes over the labor industrial relations due to bankruptcy.
