ONE-SIDED EXPLANATION OF BANK MANDIRI TO CLASS ACTION SUIT

ONE-SIDED EXPLANATION OF

BANK MANDIRI TO CLASS ACTION SUIT

On 5 August 2008 by mean of advertisement in Rakyat Merdeka Daily, Bank Mandiri make counter to employees’ Class Action Suit of Bank Mandiri employees (at command of Jakarta Selatan State Court should be notified / announced and incidentally announced in Rakyat Merdeka Daily on 18 July 2008). Counter of this Bank Mandiri clearly infringe the ethics in procedure of judicial and Rakyat Merdeka Daily have also infringed the journalistic ethic code only for the shake of getting advertisement of the Bank Mandiri.

In its advertisement, Bank Mandiri contained of 6 points that each its point clearly oppose against the real reality and the existing law fact.

In the sanction letter was given by Bank Mandiri Management, mentioned that employees do not infringe Joint Working Agreement, but infringe Disciplinary Employee Regulation because of have done sit-in.

Said that the disciplinary action (except Lay off) have ended the applied sanction period that is a public victimization because most employees that accept the sanction letter never accepted the notification letter that applied sanction period has ended.

The decision of Industrial Relation Court deciding Lay off to Miss. Mirisnu Viddiana had not yet the stated legal force because Miss Mirisnu Viddiana directly stated an appeal to jurisdiction (legal right) to Appellate Court of Supreme Court (MA) so that status of Miss Mirisnu Viddiana is still as a Bank Mandiri employee.

Also told that Bank Mandiri often give its employee rights even have exceeded the specified normative rights. Whereas, the Class Action suit not debate the normative rights of the employee, but about the action of Bank Mandiri Management does not highly has basis in giving the penalization to the employees doing demonstration action.

Mentioned that Bank Mandiri often submits and obedient to the valid entire rules and also respect the jurisdiction process of taking place class action. But what’s going on? Management conducts the intimidation and pressures actions to proxy and Class Action member. Intimidation not only against the employees, but also was done to employee’s families (wives, parents, children).

Even until this article issued (21 August 2008), Management side through its lawyer (Purbadi and Kemalsyah) is still doing intimidation to class member and proxy. Intimidation is also carried out by mean of Dummy Union to be formed by the Management to Proxy and the class members that its point in order to retiring from Class Action Suit.

What was did the Bank Mandiri Management by doing the announcement quite like this? Nothing more than phobia of Bank Mandiri Management which have treated a set of unlawful acts (Against the Law) that is doing injustice civil act; anti union and indicating money politics practices.