PTDI set tp rehire workers who passed reselection test

PTDI set tp rehire workers who passed reselection test

Yuli Tri Suwarni, The Jakarta Post, Bandung, West Java

State-owned aircraft maker PT Dirgantara (PTDI) announced on
Friday the results of a reselection test the company had held
from Sept. 23 to Oct. 3 in order to rehire employees of good
caliber.

Edwin Sudarmo, the president director of PTDI, said 4,957
employees had passed the test, which was executed by human
resource consultant PT Perso Data, and only 100 employees failed
due to either low intelligence quotient (IQ) or crime-related
concerns.

However, Edwin said the company would rehire only 3,400
employees in line with its core business needs, and the remaining
employees would be placed with other subsidiaries of PT DI.

"In principle, the company is honoring employees who were
willing to take part in the reselection test and rejoin the
company," Edwin told a press conference here.

He said the company would immediately rehire those who passed
the test and place them in positions befitting their professional
qualifications.

The company held the reselection test after initially
suspending 9,647 of its more that 12,000 employees in July due to
financial problems. It also fired 3,900 workers, some of whom had
initially been suspended.

At least 5,057 of the suspended 9,647 employees took part in
the reselection test.

Edwin said the company had allocated Rp 130 billion (US$16.25
million) for the disbursement of severance pay to the dismissed
employees, who were let go after they failed to register for the
reselection test.

However, general secretary of the PTDI's Workers Communication
Forum AM Bone said the employees would reject the severance pay,
saying it was not enough.

"The severance pay does not comply with a ministerial decree
signed by the minister of manpower and transmigration,
stipulating that employees be given severance pay equaling two to
13 times the monthly take home pay. We reject the company's
decision to give employees only one month take home pay in
severance pay," he said.

In response to the statement, PTDI director for general
affairs Muhammad Nuril Fuad said the severance pay was in
accordance with Law No. 13/2003 on manpower and did not violate
any regulations.

Fuad expected the company's decision to fire employees would
be backed by a P4B worker tripartite mediation body, which was
scheduled to issue a decision shortly. He said he hoped the body
would issue the letter before November, explaining that: "The
company can only pay the dismissed employees until December this
year."