Saravanan Mulling Scheme To Better Protect P Hailing E Hailing Workers

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The Human Resources Ministry is planning to introduce a social security scheme to better protect the welfare of workers in the p-hailing and e-hailing sectors.
Minister M Saravanan said this could be implemented quickly using his power as a minister, with the approval of the cabinet.
Hence, the ministry would meet with representatives of these two groups of workers to get their input before tabling the matter in the cabinet.
“My team is studying this (social security network) … if we want to wait for an Act, it will take a long time (to be implemented). I have already discussed it with the ministry’s acting secretary-general.
“In a week or two, we will make an announcement on how to use the ministerial power to provide a social security network for this group,” he said today.
He was speaking to reporters after launching the Islamic Skills Training Loan (PLK-i) and Myperkasa Portal on Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) at the Kuala Lumpur World Trade Centre.
Human Resources Minister M SaravananSaravanan said this when asked to comment on the issue of e-hailing and p-hailing workers staging a strike recently to protest the deduction of delivery charges by companies providing the service.
On PLK-i, Saravanan said the syariah-compliant loans, which are open to all races, would empower the country’s TVET agenda to produce more skilled workers in line with the Fourth Industrial Revolution (IR4.0).
“This is a product from the Skills Development Fund Corporation (PTPK) to ease the burden of applicants because they don’t have to pay interest for the first 12 months,” he added.
He said in line with changes under the IR4.0, PTPK had been tasked to identify programmes which would have a brighter chance of overcoming the problem of mismatch between jobs and qualifications of job seekers.
The first phase of PLK-i will run until Aug 15.
- Bernama

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