Employing Labors for Construction work: Published on 11 Mar 2007

We are coming across an interesting problem with the labors. The local government is interested that the people who are employed as labours for various construction works need to have similar security and benefits as the staff.

Now, if we start employing all the labors, we will end up being the biggest organisation in Indonesia in terms of number of staff. So we are looking for options for effectively engaging labors in our work

I had a consultation with a local agency who will hire labors and engage them in our field areas. This sounded interesting, and we started exploring a bit further. After a brief explanation of the work, as well as site visits, the local agency submitted their quotes to engage around 50 labors for our work.

I have also asked the agency to give an undertaking that they are abiding the labor laws of the local government before negotiating further.

Through this agency, I am hoping that our construction activities will continue with out any major problem.