Number of companies stopped operations due to Covid-19 Pandemic. Income losses and work termination could not be avoided. The 2023 district minimum wages have been established by the Governor. Workers are benefited from wage increase which is almost 10 (ten) percent. On the other hand, the increase burdens the employers. The Regulation on wage payment does not provide a solution to the problems of remuneration during the Covid-19 pandemic. However, the legal effort to postpone wage payments due to the inability to pay has been removed by the legislation. Hence, wage regulation reformulation is required. This research aims to examine the legal issues of wage regulations to provide a solution to this issue that guarantees the continuity of business operations by providing legal protections for workers. This is a normative juridical research with various approaches according to legal research principles, including the statutory approach, concept approach, case approach, and comparative approach. The study first conducts a normative analysis to resolve remuneration problems. Second, it reformulates the concept of Contractus Sui Generis from a work agreement to an agreement between laborers and entrepreneurs. Third, it assesses the concept of Contractus Sui Generis as the correct arrangement in the field of remuneration. The conclusion and the legal solution to the wage payment problem is to urge the government to facilitate an employment agreement through which Contractus Suie Generis regulates labor wages after the pandemic.
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