Flight attendants to get severance pay<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Bouraq and Mandala airlines agreed yesterday to
\ngive severance pay to dozens of dismissed female flight
\nattendants in line with legal requirements, the employees'
\nlawyers said.<\/p>\n
Christina Rini Yuliarti from the Legal Aid Institute said
\nMandala Airlines agreed to pay severance pay to the 40 women at
\nbetween Rp 6 million (US$410) and Rp 16 million each.<\/p>\n
The agreement was reached after Mandala president Veronica
\nSubarkah met the flight attendants at the company's office on Jl.
\nGaruda, Central Jakarta, yesterday.<\/p>\n
\"The company also agreed to pay the flight attendants'
\nsalaries which had been cut by 50 percent since January,\" Rini
\ntold The Jakarta Post.<\/p>\n
She said flight attendants would meet once again on Monday
\nwith Mandala officials to press their demand for flight fees
\noutstanding since February.<\/p>\n
The flight attendants' spokeswomen, Wahyuni Widi Astuti said
\nthe women, who were told about their dismissal on June 9,
\ninitially demanded the company revoke the plan.<\/p>\n
\"We finally agreed to be dismissed after we were told that the
\ncompany would go bankrupt by September if the rupiah continued
\nplunging against the U.S. dollar,\" Widi said.<\/p>\n
She said the flight attendants' salaries were between Rp
\n300,000 and Rp 1.3 million a month.<\/p>\n
They could have earned between Rp 1.5 million and Rp 3 million
\nhad the company not slashed their salaries by half in January,
\nshe said.<\/p>\n
The flight attendants are hopeful Mandala will pay their
\noutstanding flight fees of about Rp 1.5 million each.<\/p>\n
Wearing their yellow-white-blue uniforms, the women seemed
\nhappy with the decision yesterday. One said she would use the
\nmoney to buy a new air conditioner.<\/p>\n
Separately, PT Bouraq Indonesia Airlines agreed to give
\nseverance pay to its 21 contract flight attendants of between Rp
\n1.5 million and Rp 3 million each, the women's lawyer Surya
\nChandra of the Legal Aid Institute said.<\/p>\n
Surya said Bouraq had initially refused to give the severance
\npay on the pretext that the stewardesses were not permanent
\nemployees.<\/p>\n
Bouraq terminated working contracts with 21 of its 50
\nstewardesses on March 1, he said.<\/p>\n
Quoting an article in a manpower ministerial decree, Surya
\nsaid contract workers were entitled to severance pay, the amount
\nof which depended on their length of employment with the company.<\/p>\n
Surya said his clients' contracts were valid until next year.<\/p>\n
The flight attendants had complained to the Committee for
\nLabor Dispute Settlement of the Ministry of Manpower about their
\ndismissal. (jun)<\/p>",
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