Gap between Functional Appointment and Authority Requirements for Industrial Relations Mediators: Legal Effectiveness of Mediation in Murung Raya Regency
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Mediation constitutes an important mechanism for industrial relations dispute settlement. Its legal effectiveness depends on the alignment among the administrative status of officials, competency, exercise of authority, procedural regularity, and settlement outcome documents. This study examines the gap between appointment to the Functional Position of Industrial Relations Mediator and fulfillment of the requirements for exercising mediators’ authority in Murung Raya Regency, as well as its implications for the legal effectiveness of mediation. This empirical legal research employs a socio-legal approach and qualitative analysis based on interviews, written statements, institutional documents, and an in-depth examination of five cases supported by complete minutes or official records and related case-handling documents. The data were analyzed through source triangulation and assessment against primary legal materials using legal system theory and law enforcement factors. The findings show that functional appointment has established the administrative status of officials and supported their involvement in dispute handling. However, education and training, competency, understanding of authority, and performance of mediator functions reveal discrepancies in implementation. The findings include two cases that did not result in agreement and were referred to the provincial level without a written recommendation at the regency level; three Collective Agreements that did not identify the signatory’s capacity as an Industrial Relations Mediator in the witnessing section; variations in documented case-handling periods; and incorrect legal bases in several documents. The legal effectiveness of mediation in Murung Raya Regency therefore depends on the alignment among functional status, competency, understanding of authority, procedural regularity, and settlement outcome documents.
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