Employment Law

We advise employers and employees on the full span of industrial relations — hiring and onboarding, workplace discipline, wage and benefits structuring, and the procedural requirements of the Manpower Law and its substantial subsequent amendment under the Job Creation Law (UU Cipta Kerja), which reshaped termination procedure, severance calculation, and the use of fixed-term and outsourced employment arrangements in ways many employers and employees alike have yet to fully absorb. Termination (PHK) is the area where this practice is tested most often: Indonesian law sets out specific grounds, procedures, and compensation formulas for lawful termination, and an employer who departs from them — however justified the underlying reason may feel — exposes itself to a dispute that is almost always more costly than compliance would have been.

We advise on collective bargaining and the relationship between employers and labour unions, on workplace policies designed to withstand scrutiny before they are tested in a dispute rather than after, and on the particular sensitivities of employment matters in sectors — hospitality, mining, maritime, and energy among them — where shift work, site-based employment, and a workforce drawn from across Indonesia's regions add layers of complexity that generic employment advice does not address.

Where a dispute reaches the Industrial Relations Court (PHI), we represent the client's interest with the same preparation we bring to any other tribunal — bipartite and tripartite negotiation records, documentary evidence of performance or misconduct, and witness testimony assembled and tested well before the matter is heard. Employment disputes are rarely only about the law; they are about a relationship, often a long one, that has broken down, and resolving them well requires an understanding of both the legal framework and the human one. We bring both, and we advise employers in particular that the cheapest employment dispute is the one that compliant process prevents from arising at all.