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Employers footing Covid-19 screening cost get double tax deduction

PUTRAJAYA: Employers who bear the cost of Covid-19 screening will get double tax deduction for the payment of employee screening costs made during the year, said Finance Minister Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Abdul Aziz. “Individuals can also get tax exemption for screening costs,” he said in a media briefing on the Malaysian Economic and Rakyat’s […]

Employers urged to refine risk assessment, work procedures

KUCHING: The National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (Niosh) called for the need of employers to refine risk assessment and improve work procedures for high-risk industries such as for workers who are directly exposed to Covid-19 patients or symptomatic visitors. Chairman of Niosh, Datuk Wilson Ugak Kumbong stated the institute takes seriously on the […]

Employers required to provide quarantine centres for foreign workers

PUTRAJAYA: Employers are required to provide quarantine centres to isolate their foreign workers who are confirmed Covid-19 positive, said Human Resources Minister Datuk Seri M. Saravanan. In a statement issued here today, he said, the employers are also required to bear the medical cost, as well as to see to the welfare of the foreign […]

Send foreign worker immediately for screening

KUALA LUMPUR: The Social Security Organisation (SOCSO) urged employers to immediately send their foreign workers for Covid-19 screening to curb the pandemic. Its chief executive officer Datuk Seri Dr Mohammed Azman Aziz Mohammed, in a statement today,  said since Dec 1 until noon on Tuesday, a total of 74,482 screening tests involving a total of 2,601 employers, […]

Employers to file claim for wage subsidies

KUALA LUMPUR: Employers are to file claims for their employees to benefit from the Wage Subsidy Programme, provided under the people-centric economic stimulus package (Prihatin) 2020. Human Resources Minister Datuk Seri M. Saravanan said under the programme, set to benefit some 3.3 million employees, employers are not allowed to lay off their workers, deduct their salaries or […]

Sec-gens, employers must issue travel permits for workers

PUTRAJAYA: All secretaries-general of ministries providing essential services must issue travel authorisation letters to staff working during the Movement Control Order (MCO) period. Senior Minister (Security Cluster) Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob said, at a special ministerial meeting on the MCO held this morning, it was decided that the directive also applied to employers of private businesses which have […]