SOCSO Covers Gig Workers

More than 145,000 gig workers will be covered by SOCSO include food delivery riders, walkers, and also parcel delivery partners. Foodpanda and Grab have become the first among the 133 service providers in the country to enroll their delivery partners under its Occupational Disaster Scheme.

The SPS Lindung scheme is paid by the government for a year. To ensure that these gig workers are protected and in order to encourage more of them to register, the government will provide assistance in the form of full funding under Plan Two of the Self Employment Social Security Scheme (SKSPS) which is RM232.80 for the coverage period for a year.

Benefits include medical, temporary disablement, permanent disablement, dependents and funeral benefits, constant care allowance, education benefit, and facilities for physical or vocational rehabilitation. dung scheme is paid by the government for a year

To ensure that these gig workers are protected and in order to encourage more of them to register, the government will provide assistance in the form of full funding under Plan Two of the Self Employment Social Security Scheme (SKSPS) which is RM232.80 for the coverage period for a year.

SOCSO, however, stated that as of 9 July the number of delivery partners who have registered and are actively contributing is still low. A total of 64,773 delivery partners have registered and are actively contributing under SKSPS. They make up about 39% of the 166,189 total gig workers in the country contributing to SOCSO.

There are 2.72 million gig workers recorded by the Department of Statistics Malaysia, the number of gig workers contributing to SOCSO is still low at only 6.1%.