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As of 30 September 2024, around 88% of foreign workers are registered with PERKESO, while only 59% of foreign domestic workers are enrolled.
Malaysia's Social Security Organisation (PERKESO) has conducted its Simultaneous Foreign Workers Impact Ops 2024, involving 54 of its offices nationwide. The operation is part of its efforts to track employers who failed to register and contribute to their foreign workers' social security, including expatriates and domestic workers who are eligible under the Workers' Social Security Act, 1969 (Act 4).
PERKESO estimates reveal that a small portion of foreign workers still have not received social security protection during their employment in Malaysia. As of 30 September 2024, around 88% of foreign workers are registered with PERKESO, while only 59% of foreign domestic workers are enrolled.
Failure to register a company or worker can result in the company owner or employer being sentenced to imprisonment for up to two years, or a fine not exceeding RM10,000 or both.
As PERKESO asserted in its statement: "PERKESO's registration and contributions are not meant to burden the employer, but to guarantee the rights of foreign workers to obtain social security protection in accordance with international standards."
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