UPAYA HUKUM PEKERJA UNTUK MENDAPATKAN HAK-HAKNYA PADA PERUSAHAAN PAILIT JIKA HARTA PAILIT TIDAK MENCUKUPI

Abstract

Abstrak

Kasus pemenuhan hak pekerja terhadap perusahaan yang pailit lupakan suatu permasalahan yang sangat rumit. Kondisi keuangan yang sangat buruk pada suatu perusahaan akan berdampak terhadap kondisi pailit guna menunaikan kewajiban perusahaan dalam melunasi setiap hutang kepada kreditur. Salah satu kreditur yang dimaksud adalah para pekerja yang menuntut pemenuhan gaji mereka yang belum terbayarkan. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui upaya hukum pekerja untuk mendapatkan hak-haknya pada perusahaan pailit jika harta pailit tidak mencukupi. Penelitian ini bersifat deskriptif dengan jenis penelitian yuridis normatif, menggunakan data sekunder berupa bahan hukum primer, sekunder, dan tersier, melalui pendekatan perundang-undangan (statute approach) dan pendekatan kasus (case approach). Data dikumpulkan dengan cara studi dokumen, kemudian data dianalisis secara kualitatif. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa apabila harta pailit suatu perusahaan tidak mencukupi untuk membayarkan hak-hak pekerja, dibenarkan terhadap pekerja dapat menempuh upaya hukum dalam bentuk gugatan actio paulina guna memperoleh keadaan perusahaan sebelum terjadinya pailit sehingga para pekerja dapat memperjuangkan setiap hak nya tanpa menunggu pembagian hasil pailit.

Kata Kunci: Upaya Hukum Pekerja, Hak-Hak, Perusahaan Pailit.

Abstract

In the world's workforce, cases of fulfilling workers' rights as a result of company bankruptcy are still a complex and never-ending problem. The poor financial condition of a company often causes it to go bankrupt to fulfill the company's obligations to pay debts to creditors, oftentimes workers become one of the creditors because of their unpaid salary rights. However, even though workers are designated as creditors, this does not guarantee the fulfillment of workers' rights, often it actually causes workers to lose their rights. This study aims to determine the legal efforts of workers to get their rights in a bankrupt company if the bankrupt assets are insufficient. This research is descriptive in nature with the type of normative juridical research, using data in the form of primary, secondary and tertiary legal materials, through a statute approach and a case approach. Data was collected by means of document study, then the data were analyzed qualitatively. The results of the study show that if the bankrupt assets of a company are insufficient to pay for workers' rights, then workers can take legal action in the form of seduction actio pauliana to return the company to the state it was before the bankruptcy so that workers can fight for the fulfillment of their rights first and don't have to wait the results of the distribution of bankruptcy assets.

Keyword: Worker's Legal Remedies, Rights, Company Bankruptcy