Monitoring over wage hikes

Monitoring over wage hikes

TANGERANG (JP): The Tangerang Office of the Manpower Ministry is having difficulties monitoring the implementation of a new regulation set by the government on a raise of the daily minimum wages for workers, an official said yesterday.

"It is really difficult to comprehensively check it because there are too many small-scale companies each employing less than 100 workers," said R. Sutrisno Pulung, one of the office's officials.

However, most of the factories have complied with the new wage regulation, he said. According to the Manpower office, there are 1,600 factories scattered across Tangerang.

Sutrisno revealed that at least 87 labor strikes had occurred in Tangerang last year. The striking workers had generally demanded a raise in their daily wages. (bas)