Human Resources Ministry Will Launch E-Wages System Soon

The Ministry of Human Resources will launch an e-wages system soon to guarantee that all workers in Malaysia, including foreign workers, are paid their wages and salaries as their employers had promised. 

HR Minister Datuk Seri M. Saravanan stated that his team had met with the Home Ministry to adjust the system. According to him, the system is currently in the final stages before implementation. 

He said that the government expects the system to help regulate employers who do not or are late in paying wages to workers in all sectors, which is often a problem in Malaysia.

He added that by using the e-wages system, the ministry would receive early information of employers, who need to pay their employee wages before the 7th of each month, do not pay within the specified period. 

The e-wages system will notify the ministry whether employers are paying their workers or not. 

The minister responded to the allegations that there were employers who made reports to the Immigration Department to conduct raids on their foreign workers to avoid paying their workers' wages. 

He also thanked the Home Ministry for agreeing to share the ministry's existing platform to receive preliminary data on whether the employers had paid the employees' wages before the employees can make a complaint. 

Saravanan said that even though the Home Ministry is responsible for defending the workers' fate, be it locals or foreigners, the HR ministry was previously hampered. It did not have access to evaluate the problem using Home Ministry's existing platform. 

With both ministries' agreement to share the platform, the HR ministry will receive early information when it launches the e-wages system. There's no need for the ministry to wait for the employees' complaints with the system in place. As soon as an employer fails to pay, the HR Ministry will receive information and will take action. 

Employers can give employees day off for vaccination

Saravanan also said that the HR ministry agrees that employers should provide leave to their employees to take the COVID-19 immunisation, but it cannot force employers to do so. 

The minister said the leave would give Malaysians assurance to be vaccinated as many were still worried about the jab. 

He explained that it depends on the employer to provide the leave or not as the government cannot declare a special holiday as the vaccination program is not carried out on the same day. 

Recently, the coordinating minister for Malaysia's immunisation programme, Khairy Jamaluddin, had said the leave was among suggestions made at the Covid-19 Vaccine Supply Access Guarantee Special Committee meeting with the Ministry of Human Resources.

Sources: Malay Mail, FMT

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