Jurnal Kajian Pembaruan Hukum
Vol. 3 No. 1 (2023): January-June 2023

Workers Layoffs Caused from the COVID-19 Pandemic in Indonesia and the European Union

Al-Fatih, Sholahuddin (Unknown)
Nur, Asrul Ibrahim (Unknown)
Nilasari, Nilasari (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
30 Apr 2023

Abstract

This article aims to find legal efforts of workers who layoffs caused by COVID-19 pandemic. Layoff in a company can occur when a company goes bankrupt until it cannot meet its employees' salaries. In addition, some others are not affected by layoffs but are laid off without getting a salary. That were a big problem to face new normal era, a daily life after pandemic. Using the normative legal research method, this paper aimed to explain and describe how COVID-19 affected a thousand workers around Indonesia and European Unian. Human rights, especially the rights of worker, use as a tool to analyze, how COVID-19 pandemic affected workers in Indonesia and European Union. As a result, this paper found that many people were laid off because of the COVID-19 pandemic; the government provides some facilities to help people who laid off during and after pandemic COVID-19, both in Indonesia and European Union perspective. Indonesia adopted some program, such as; a) Program for Family Hope; b) Food Donation Without Cash; c) Bantuan Sosial/Bansos; d) Village Funds; e) The Ministry of Social's social charity; f) Pre-Work Card (Kartu Prakerja); g) Donations made by the provincial government; h) Generosity from the city or regency administration; and i) The provincial government offers assistance to those who require housing. While, The EU has a constitution that guarantees that all citizens can work throughout the territory of the member states.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

JKPH

Publisher

Subject

Law, Crime, Criminology & Criminal Justice

Description

Jurnal Kajian Pembaruan Hukum (ISSN 2776-9828) is a refereed law journal published by the postgraduate program (Master of Laws) of the University of Jember, Indonesia. The publication in this journal focuses on the studies in law reform under doctrinal, empirical, socio-legal, and comparative ...