THE MEANING OF WAGE JUSTICE DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Abstract

Workers and employers felt the impact of Covid-19 that spread among the labor cluster. One of the problems is wage. The novelty of this research is the discussion of the government’s point of view on the differences in interests based on the wages meaning. This paper aims to find out the meaning of wage justice for workers and entrepreneurs during the Covid-19 pandemic through the perspective of Islam. The descriptive qualitative methodology is used to find out the wage justice meaning regarding the reduced wages of the workers that are on the essential category, 51 companies with 3,032 workers at the hotel sector and export-oriented industries such as charcoal briquettes and footwear. The data of companies that do not provide wages and lay off the workers on the critical category show 36 companies with 2,290 workers. Most of them are working on the food industry, beverage industry and the supporting sectors. The duties and roles of the Manpower Office, through labor inspectors, are supervising the implementation of the manpower public policies in the form of laws protecting both workers and employers. The formulation of this new policy aims to minimize the employment problems that may occur during the Covid-19 pandemic.