Foreign Worker Compensation Scheme Socso

Employers who hire foreign workers will be strictly monitored to ensure that their foreign workers would also be protected under the social security organisation socso scheme effective.

Foreign worker compensation scheme socso. Beginning jan 1 2019 employers must make socso contributions for their foreign workers and this involves the 1 8 million foreign workers that we have in the country however employers will be. However he said the foreign workers would not be covered by the invalidity pension scheme under act 4. However foreign workers would not be covered by the invalidity pension scheme under the 1969 act. However foreign workers would not be covered by the invalidity pension scheme under act 4 said the minister.

Existing foreign workers in malaysia who have valid foreign workers compensation scheme fwcs they have to register with socso by their employers a day after expiration of fwcs subject to the end of the cooling off period for fwcs on 31 december 2019. The minister said employers can go to any of socso s 54 offices throughout the country including sabah and sarawak to register their foreign workers. He added that his ministry together with socso will conduct engagements with the stakeholders soon on the matter. For existing foreign workers in malaysia who have valid foreign workers compensation scheme fwcs they have to be registered with socso by their employers a day after the expiration of fwcs subject to the end of the cooling off period for fwcs on 31 december 2019.

Kualasegaran said employers can go to any of socso s 54 offices throughout the country to register their foreign workers. The cabinet s decision to place social security protection of foreign workers is in line with the equality of treatment. He said employers who hire foreign workers with valid documents including expatriates must register their employees with socso and contribute to the employment injury scheme eis under the. Kulasegaran said this was in line with the equality of treatment accident compensation convention 1925 no 19 and conference committee on the application of standard under the.

Effective 1 january 2019 employers in malaysia who hire foreign workers including expatriates with valid documents must register their employees under social security organisation socso and contribute to the employment injury scheme eis as reported by the star online. Human resources minister m.