The Implementation of Indonesian Labor Law to Legal Protection on the Rights of Outsourced Labor in Private Companies in Medan

Abstract

The presence of outsourced laborers in companies in Indonesia raises many problems, especially viewed from a legal point of view. Several protests demanding the fulfillment of the rights of outsourced labors can be used as initial evidence that Law Number 3 of 2003 concerning Labor has not been able to provide legal protection to the rights that outsourced laborers must obtain. This paper aims at finding out the implementation of the Labor Law on the legal protection to the rights of outsourced laborers employed in private companies in Medan. This study used a normative juridical method. The data were both primary and secondary data. The preliminary data were collected from the questionnaires and interviews, while the secondary data were obtained from legal documents, including Labor Law, outsourcing contracts, and journal articles. The participants were outsourced laborers and employers hiring outsourced laborers in their companies in Medan. The results of data analysis show that the rights of outsourced laborers employed in private companies in Medan are not well provided. There needs to be a law regulating strict legal protection on outsourced workers employed in companies in Medan.