The Flight and Fight of Transferred Employees
At Palyja and PAM Jaya, ‘golden handshakes’ have not just been used as a tool of business etiquette or to effect greater worker efficiency, but rather as a means for releasing dissident employees.
November 27, 2000
Ahmad Rizal was employed at PAM Jaya (Jakarta Raya Drinking Water Company) for 22 years. But several years ago, after the company was privatized, Rizal found himself out of a job.
Now 41 and a father of three, Rizal is proud of his term of employment at PAM Jaya. He began working there while in 2nd grade at the Jakarta Intermediate Technical School. He was signed up to work in the billing department at the Cempaka Putih office, East Jakarta.
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