Legal Protection of Domestic Workers from A National Law Perspective

Abstract

The regulation number 13 of 2003 concerning Labour (Labour Law) has regulated the basic principles for the creation of productive, harmonious and just working conditions. However, the law does not substantively regulate domestic workers. We use the normative research with a statute approach. The presence of Minister of Labour Regulation Number 2 of 2015 concerning Protection of Domestic Workers which is expected to reach things that are not regulated in the labour law is in fact far from what was expected. Domestic workers can’t hope for this ministerial regulation because there are differences between the rights of workers in the labour law and the rights of domestic workers in the Minister of Manpower Regulation Nomor 2 of 2015 which can be said to be discriminatory. Domestic workers are categorized into the scope of the informal sector causing limited rights that can be obtained.