Legal Assurance Against Contract Workers in Review of Copyright Law

Abstract

This research is descriptive in a normative juridical manner, using secondary data, primary and secondary legal materials. Legal protection and welfare for workers is duty of government. One form of welfare is by making policies in form of revising Law Number 13 of 2003 concerning Manpower with Law Number 11 of 2020 concerning Job Creation and its derivatives Government Regulation of the Republic of Indonesia Number 35 of 2021 concerning Work Agreements for a certain time, Outsourcing, Time Work and Rest Time, and Termination of Employment. The Employment Creation Act has provided answers to problems regarding compensation at the end of the employment relationship with the addition of Article 61A. Where in the article stipulates that when the work agreement for a certain time ends, entrepreneur is obliged to provide compensation money to the worker whose amount is adjusted to the working period of the worker concerned. However, after Employment Creation Act was enacted, there are still several problems that deserve attention, including: there is no limit regarding with maximum period for a certain type of work agreement based on completion of a particular job, there are no legal consequences if work agreement a certain time is made in writing, and there is no arrangement regarding notification from employer regarding extension and renewal of work agreement for a certain time.