PUTRAJAYA, March 28- A total of 63,000 civil servants who are employed on temporary or contract basis will also enjoy the various benefits provided under the Social Security Organisation (Socso) effective May 1. Human Resource Minister Datuk Seri Dr S. Subramaniam said the government made the decision to ensure that the welfare of the workers and their family members would also be safeguarded under the Employment Injury Insurance Scheme and Invalidity Pension similar to those enjoyed by private sector employees.
“This decision benefits all temporary and contract workers in the public service, including the 15,000 employees working in the Ministry of Information Communication and Culture who are categorised as temporary and contract staff all this while,” he said at a media conference at his office, here today.
Dr Subramaniam said Socso would take immediate action to register all temporary and contract workers who were currently serving in the federal/state civil service, federal/state statutory bodies and the local authorities.
“The cabinet made the decsion last week…As such, all the workers concerned will automatically be registered under Socso. Socso will contact the relevant departments and agencies to carry out the registration,” he said.
Dr Subramaniam said the government would spend RM30 million each year with the expansion of the scheme. He said that the employment injury scheme would protect the worker who suffered from accidents arising from work, involved in an accident while on his way to work and back as well as occupational diseases. Meanwhile, the minister said 1,912 employers were found to have failed to register their workers under the Scoso scheme last year.
“They were identified under the ‘Ops Kesan’ carried out on 20,003 employers last year and the majority of them were medium and small-scale employers,” he said.
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