Dismissed workers get pension fund

Dismissed workers get pension fund

BANJARMASIN, South Kalimantan: The state-owned social security
insurance company, PT Jamsostek, has paid Rp 2.48 billion in
pension funds to more than 4,600 dismissed workers in the
province.

"There is no reason for us not to extend our service to those
who have already lost their employment. On the contrary, we want
them to obtain their rights and we are ready to give our best,"
Antara news agency quoted Tjipto Rahadi, chief of the Jamsostek
branch office in Banjarmasin, as saying here on Wednesday.

The government has recently allowed dismissed workers whose
participation in the social security program was less than five
years to claim their pension funds to help them survive the
crisis.

Tjipto said that for the past nine months, the company also
paid Rp 1.08 billion in compensation to 872 workers who suffered
job-related injuries and Rp 99 million to heirs of 83 workers who
died in on-the-job accidents. (edt)