Foodpanda Malaysia, signed an MOU with SOCSO to provide wider and better coverage of social protection to over 60,000 of its delivery partners under the Self-Employment Social Security Scheme.
This will now see its delivery partners receiving subsidised protection from the government and complemented by the company, under Budget 2022’s initiative – SPS Padanan Caruman (SPS Contribution Matching).
Datuk Seri M. Saravanan said the SPS Padanan Caruman is an incentive offered to any self-employed individual including gig workers to ensure that they are protected against any mishaps while carrying out their work.
The SKSPS is a protection plan for self-employed insured persons against self-employment injury including occupational diseases and accidents during work-related activities. Some of the benefits under this plan include medical, temporary, and permanent disablement, dependants’ benefit, constant-attendance allowance, funeral, education, and state-of-art facilities for physical or vocational rehabilitation.
Under the program, assistance is given through the SPS Padanan Caruman programme in which the government provides incentives of up to 80% for individual contributors. foodpanda Malaysia, will subsidise 50% of the remaining balance (or 10% of the total amount) this equates to RM23.30 per person, for one-year protection.
Delivery riders are susceptible to accidents and injuries due to the nature of their job, there has been an increasing call by the public for tech platforms to extend insurance coverage to these riders. However, the Government has taken the initiative to restructure its SOCSO coverage which in the past mandated employers to register their employees with this new programme.
