PETALING JAYA: Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin is always looking for solutions to help with the people's problems and this can be seen in the recent announcement of the "Perlindungan Ekonomi dan Rakyat Malaysia" (Permai) assistance package.
PETALING JAYA: The Social Security Organisation (Socso) is committed to implementing improved assistance for employers and employees in the various programmes outlined in the recently announced Perlindungan Ekonomi dan Rakyat Malaysia (Permai) assistance package.
The programmes are the Wage Subsidy Programme 3.0 (WSP 3.0), SPS Lindung and the Covid-19 screening of foreign workers, said Socso in a statement on Tuesday (Jan 19).
Under the WSP 3.0, all sectors excluding retail and tourism, are eligible to receive a wage subsidy of RM600 for each employee earning less than RM4,000 per month.
“With an additional allocation of RM1bil, the government has also raised the limit of 200 employers per application to 500 employees, of which 250,000 employers employing more than 2.6 million employees are expected to benefit from this initiative, said the organisation.
More needs to be done for the tourist guide community that has been severely impacted by the pandemic. - Filepic With borders still closed to international travellers, the government needs to provide more assistance to help tourist guides in the country sustain their livelihoods.
Malaysian Tourist Guides Council president Jimmy Leong said more needs to be done for the tourist guide community that has been severely impacted by the pandemic. Any gesture initiated by the government is appreciated but a one-off assistance of RM500 is certainly not enough to sustain even the basic need of any family, he told
The Star.
PETALING JAYA: The government does not expect the second movement control order to have a similar economic impact to the first MCO in March last year as economic activities have been allowed to operate this time, says Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin.
In an instant reaction to Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin’s RM15 billion economic stimulus package announcement today, Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) said loan takers can request repayment moratorium and that their Central Credit Reference Information System report will not be affected at a time when the nation contends with the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.