Ex-employees seeking justice<\/p>\n
We are writing this letter in order to express our deep
\nconcern over Ministry of Manpower regulations which are not
\nimplemented accordingly and adhered to by PT Servcorp Indonesia.
\nThis letter is specifically addressed to the management of
\nServcorp and also to the clients of Servcorp. We are former
\nemployees of Servcorp who have been mistreated during our
\nemployment period and have been forced to terminate our positions
\nwithout any good reason whatsoever.<\/p>\n
Servcorp is an Australian company dealing with leasing small
\nserviced offices and which has its offices in Wisma Bank Dharmala
\n(12th floor) and Wisma BNI 46 (43rd floor). Servcorp's management
\nis headed by a managing director based in Australia and
\nAustralian managers based in Jakarta. For the past 22 months, 24
\nemployees have resigned as a result of bad treatment received or
\nthey were forced to resign and to tender a resignation letter
\nwith compensation of three months' salary. This kind of treatment
\nhad been going on and none of us was able to do anything about
\nit. We feel that it is time the Ministry of Manpower took
\nnecessary action.<\/p>\n
Whenever a new employee is hired, there is no clear job
\ndescription of who does what, which makes things very
\ncomplicated. For instance, if a secretary has to carry out work
\nrelated to accounting, and when the job is done incorrectly as no
\nguidance is ever given by the manager, the blame will definitely
\nfall on the secretary. Whenever the manager dislikes one
\nemployee, he or she will be burdened with tremendous pressure,
\nand eventually, the employee will resign because of this work
\npressure. Or if the employee does not resign, a warning letter is
\nissued giving unpleasant and irrelevant reasons.<\/p>\n
Most of the time, management will not discuss with employees
\nthe mistakes that they have done; management will only inform the
\nemployee that he\/she is not performing to the standard expected
\nand, therefore, the employee may either resign on his\/her own
\nwill or keep working while three warning letters are issued.<\/p>\n
There was a case where an employee was fired during her second
\nmonth of maternity leave and she received the call at home
\nadvising her that her contract was terminated. The reason was
\nbecause she was disclosing confidential information to Servcorp's
\ncompetitor, which, in no way, the management was able to prove.
\nShe is now jobless, with no compensation after almost two years
\nof dedication and good performance to the improvement of the
\ncompany. We believe that it is very contradictory to company
\nregulations, which are kept from the employees. We strongly
\nbelieve that regulations must be distributed to each employee so
\nthat they can be adhered to.<\/p>\n
Another employee was terminated during her wedding leave,
\nunder the consideration that she was not doing well, despite the
\nfact that she had been with company for two years.<\/p>\n
We are just local employees, who have no capital, no
\nconnections or even time to think of our fate. However, we
\nsincerely believe that the Ministry of Manpower will do something
\nabout it. Surely Servcorp cannot do whatever it likes to local
\nemployees. We fervently hope that the authorities will give due
\nprotection to employees against a foreign company operating in
\nthis country.<\/p>\n
NUNU S. HARDJANTI<\/p>\n
On behalf of<\/p>\n
ex-Servcorp employees<\/p>\n
Jakarta<\/p>", "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/ex-employees-seeking-justice-1447893297", "image": "" }, "sponsor": "Okusi Associates", "sponsor_url": "https:\/\/okusiassociates.com" }