Legal Protection of Workers' Wage and Severance Rights in Company Bankruptcy : A Case Study of Decision Number 34/Pdt.Sus-Pembatalan Perdamaian/2024/PN.Niaga Jkt.Pst.

Faradila Rizkia Saputri

doi:10.56301/awl.v9i1.2322

Faradila Rizkia Saputri Universitas Pakuan

DOI: https://doi.org/10.56301/awl.v9i1.2322

Keywords: bankruptcy, cancelation of settlement, legal protection, preferred creditors, wages and severance pay

Abstract

Workers are the most vulnerable party when a company goes bankrupt, even tho wages and severance pay are normative rights as well as constitutional rights that must be protected by the state. This research aims to analyze the regulation of wage and severance pay protection for workers in bankruptcy, its application in Decision Number 34/Pdt.Sus-Pembatalan Perdamaian/2024/PN.Niaga Jkt.Pst., and to formulate an ideal normative construction post-cancellation of the peace agreement. The method used is normative legal research supported by empirical data, descriptive-analytical in nature, with a legislative and case study approach, analyzed thru bankruptcy theory, legal protection theory, and distributive justice theory. The research results show that the regulation of worker rights protection is complete normatively but structurally flawed. In the decision under review, the application of bankruptcy norms was correct, but the unpaid wages and severance pay of workers that had been overdue for thirty-seven months were completely disregarded, resulting in workers occupying the position of invisible creditors and a reversal of justice. This research offers an ideal normative construction in the form of five layers, namely the harmonization and positivization of norms, the ex officio recognition of workers' claims, special protection post-cancellation of the settlement, state guaranties, and procedural strengthening at the level of the curator and supervising judge.

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