This study examines the legal remedies available to night entertainment industry workers when their employment social security rights are unfulfilled by employers. The night entertainment industry is highly vulnerable to the neglect of normative rights due to obscured employment statuses through non-standard work agreements. Using a normative legal research method with statutory and conceptual approaches, the results indicate that positive law in Indonesia strictly requires employers to register workers in the Manpower Social Security Agency (BPJS Ketenagakerjaan) programs under Law Number 40 of 2004 concerning the National Social Security System and Law Number 24 of 2011 concerning the Social Security Administering Body juncto Law Number 13 of 2003 concerning Manpower. The main law enforcement obstacles include unclear formal employment status, low worker bargaining power, and minimal active supervision from competent labor authorities. Legal remedies available to workers include non-litigation paths covering bipartite negotiations, mediation through the Manpower Office, and administrative complaints to labor supervisors, as well as litigation paths through rights dispute lawsuits in the Industrial Relations Court (PHI) based on Law Number 2 of 2004. The conclusion emphasizes strengthening labor supervisory functions, enforcing strict administrative sanctions against stubborn employers, and optimizing access to justice for informal and night entertainment sector workers.
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