Abstract
The COVID-19 outbreak at the beginning of 2020 shocked the world had a significant impact on the world community. The deadly virus, first discovered in Wuhan, China, killed thousands of people in various countries. Regulations or policies that the government has set are very influential in every sector and aspect of human life. Disputes or cases are possible in every human relationship. They were even considering that legal subjects have long known legal entities, the more parties involved in them. With the increasingly complex pattern of people’s lives, the scope of the incident or dispute event covers a broader scope, which often gets the spotlight on industrial relations disputes. The purpose of this article is industrial solution disputes, especially disputes through mediation dismissed in the middle of a pandemic covid 19 North Sulawesi as mandated by Article 8 of law No. 2 of 2004. The research was conducted using a qualitative approach. Researchers will use the data collection techniques to study the literature, field studies, observations, interviews, and documentation. The results of the study concluded; 1. The implementation of Law Number 2 the Year 2004 has been very effective in resolving disputes through the mediation process carried out by the Manpower and Transmigration Office of North Sulawesi Province. 2. There are still obstacles in the dispute resolution process through mediation conducted by the Manpower and Transmigration Office Transmigration of North Sulawesi Province, based on Law Number 1 of 2004. 3. There are several inhibiting factors in optimizing the settlement of industrial relations disputes in North Sulawesi. Such as companies that do not want to pay compensation on time, disputes after layoffs occur in the process of mediation. Dispute resolution time is more than the time limit by Law no. 2 of 2004. The implementation of dispute resolution is not by the procedure because the disputing parties are not
Highlights
In March 2020, to prevent industrial relations disputes during the covid pandemic, the government issued a circular letter from the Minister of Manpower number M/3/HK.04/III/2020 concerning the protection of workers/laborers and business continuity in the context of preventing and overcoming covid 19
In the second part of the circular letter, paragraph four, where companies that restrict business activities due to government policies in their respective regions for the prevention and control of covid 19, causing some or all of their workers/laborers to not come to work, taking into account business continuity, changes in the amount and method payment according to the worker/ laborer is made by the agreement between the entrepreneur and the worker/ laborer
Workers and laborers who feel aggrieved because of being dismissed unilaterally by employers report their dispute to the Office of Manpower and Transmigration in the province of North Sulawesi so that the dismissal dispute is resolved through mediation based on Law Number 2 of 2004 concerning Settlement of Industrial Relations Disputes in the chapter
Summary
Workers and laborers who feel aggrieved because of being dismissed unilaterally by employers report their dispute to the Office of Manpower and Transmigration in the province of North Sulawesi so that the dismissal dispute is resolved through mediation based on Law Number 2 of 2004 concerning Settlement of Industrial Relations Disputes in the chapter. Interviews, in which researchers conducted questions and answers with resource persons who knew and understood more about the settlement of industrial relations disputes and layoffs through mediation at the Regional Manpower and Transmigration Office of North Sulawesi Province COVID-19 pandemic.
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