Employment

About

Provided by Hiswara Bunjamin & Tandjung in association with Herbert Smith Freehills

We have significant experience in advising major foreign and domestic clients on a broad range of Indonesian employment and industrial relations matters. We apply a holistic approach to advising clients in relation to their EPI activities, covering all major practice areas, including:

• Front-end employment matters, such as preparation of employment contracts, collective labour agreements, company employment policies and work permit strategies to ensure compliance with labour laws.
• Employment terminations, which can be complex and contentious here. We handle both large-scale redundancies and individual terminations.
• Contentious, managing and conducting internal investigations for clients, representing them before industrial relations courts and through alternative dispute resolution mechanisms such as mediation and arbitration.
• Preventative, including on-site training on anti-corruption and whistle-blower policies, discrimination & harassment, workplace behaviour and best practice in internal employment regulations.

Recent work highlights include acting for:

• an Australian gold miner in 15 cases brought at Ternate Industrial Relations Court involving 750 former employees of its Indonesian company
• an Indonesian subsidiary of a Japanese automotive manufacturer in a case filed at Bandung Industrial Relations Court by a company retiree
• a global online travel business in various dispute settlement actions involving a third-party payroll agency, including a police investigation