I'm curious specifically which law was this? I would like to read up on it if possible.
Labor Law 13 2003
ARTICLE 93
(1) No wages will be paid if workers/labourers do not perform work.
(2) However, the provision as mentioned under subsection(1) shall not apply and the entrepreneur shall be obligedto pay the worker/labourer’s wages if the worker/labourer does not perform work because of the following reasons:
a. The workers/labourers are ill so that they cannot perform their work;
b. The female workers/labourers are ill on the first and second day of their menstruation period so that they cannot perform their work;
c. The workers/labourers have to be absent from work because they get married, marry of their children, have their sons circumcised, have their children baptized, or because the worker/ labourer’s wife gives birth or suffers from a miscarriage, or because the wife or husband or children or children-in-law(s) or parent(s) or parent-in-law(s) of the worker/labourer or a member of the worker/labourer’s household dies.
d. The workers/labourers cannot perform their work because they are carrying out or fulfilling their
obligations to the State;
e. The workers/labourers cannot perform their work because they are performing religious obligations ordered by their religion;
f. The workers/labourers are willing to do the job that they have been promised to but the entrepreneur does not employ them, because of the entrepreneur’s own fault or because of impediments that the entrepreneur should have been able to avoid;-IF THE WORK FROM HOME CANNOT BE ORGANIZED, THIS CANNOT BE APPLIED
g. The workers/labourers are exercising their right to take a rest;
h. The workers/labourers are performing their trade union duties with the permission from the entrepreneur; and
i. The workers/labourers are undergoing an education program required by their enterprise