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 sector. 

Minister M. Saravanan said this could be implemented quickly using his power as minister and with the approval of the cabinet. 

The ministry will meet with representatives of these two groups of workers to get their input before tabling the matter to the cabinet, he said. 

“The Human Resources Ministry is studying this (social security scheme)… if we want to wait for an act and the like, 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 power of the human resources minister to provide a social security scheme for this group,” he said today.

He was speaking to reporters after launching the Islamic Skills Training Loan and MyPerkasa Portal on Technical and Vocational Education and Training at World Trade Centre Kuala Lumpur. 

Saravanan 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. – Bernama, August 12, 2022.