Jakarta, May 1 -- Deputy Chairman of the Indonesian Employers Association (Apindo) Bob Azam stated that workers' productivity has a positive relationship with the benefits or welfare their employers provide.

"There is a directly proportional relationship between productivity and welfare, because (when there is) an increase in welfare (for employees) without productivity, the business will later go bankrupt," he said here on Wednesday.

However, on the contrary, he believes that a company cannot improve its performance without thinking about labor welfare.

"These two indeed must complement each other," he stressed.

According to Azam, International Labor Day, or May Day, which is commemorated every May 1, can be a momentum for companies ...