Implementation of Employer Responsibilities for Occupational Health and Safety for Daily Casual Fishermen

Abstract

Protection of casual workers is to guarantee the basic rights of workers/laborers and guarantee equal opportunities and treatment without discrimination on any basis to realize the welfare of workers/laborers and their families while still paying attention to the development of the progress of the business world. Workers need to be protected by both employers/entrepreneurs and the state through government intervention.

In accordance with the purpose of this study, the type of research used is socio-legal research. Socio -legal research , namely a research method that combines doctrinal legal research methods and empirical legal research methods. Doctrinal research is intended to conduct library research by identifying laws and regulations and collecting other data related to the problem being studied.

In reality, casual daily workers who work on bobong ships owned by employers, they work without any guarantee other than a verbal agreement about the income earned every time they go to sea or given every week according to mutual agreement. Casual daily fishermen on these bobong ships do not receive social security in the form of health insurance, accident insurance or death insurance which is their right, in accordance with the laws and regulations governing the matter in question.