Only 7 Per Cent of Gig Workers are Registered with SOCSO
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The Malaysian government hopes more gig workers will register with the Social Security Organisation (Socso) through the National Economic Recovery Plan (Penjana) for the gig economy so that their welfare is safeguarded.
Finance Minister Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Abdul Aziz stated the government had allocated grants worth RM50 million in the form of matching grants for the gig economy platform for workers’ contribution under the Socso employment injury scheme.
He said from January until today, only 7% or 28,425 workers in the gig economy were registered with Socso compared with the total figure of gig workers of 400,000 people.
"To encourage the initiatives for gig workers under Penjana, numerous engagement sessions were made with the agriculture sector, hawkers, transportation, goods, food sectors, and 38 supervisory platforms of the gig services. More than 188,000 potential freelancers have been identified,” Tengku Zafrul said.
The minister said up to June 26, a total of RM7.07 billion was authorised under the wage subsidy programme for 307,518 businesses and protected more than 2.46 million employees.
Only 28,425 gig workers were registered with Socso.
He added that applications under the wage subsidy scheme were not approved due to several reasons including technical issue.
“Some 97% of the issues have been settled. The main problem is (putting) incorrect business registration number and this caused them to receive the assistance late compared with those who gave the correct business registration number.
“The other is that companies gave the incorrect bank account number and are not active,” he said.
Meanwhile, Socso chief executive Datuk Seri Dr Mohammed Azman Aziz Mohammed said Socso had set up a working committee to resolve the issue. “It will take some time for us to settle because there are about a few thousand (applications) or so but we are in the process of resolving it,” he said.
Source: Bernama
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