BAD news arrived at the home of Farid Miftachul Aziz two days before the Idul Fitri holiday, on March 19, 2026. The factory worker at a food can manufacturing plant received a termination notice delivered to his house in Porong subdistrict, Sidoarjo Regency, East Java. The reason was brief and clear: efficiency.

“The termination was unilateral because there had never been any negotiation or prior notification,” Farid said when m