00:02This is a cooperation between MECOM and Pekisu, which will benefit both sides.
00:16On our side, as regulators, we want to ensure the welfare of employees of the machine industry are well protected.
00:27At the same time, we want to ensure the employer of the industry complies with the relevant Pekisu Act that they have to contribute to Pekisu.
00:42This year, we learned a lot from COVID-19.
00:47We see the issue has become important after COVID-19.
01:01From now on, we are strengthening our role in ensuring compliance for the employer.
01:11We have to cooperate with Pekisu.
01:16We are lucky that Pekisu has come forward to work together with us.
01:23This is the first step.
01:25We are looking forward to working closely with EPF.
01:31It is not only to ensure the compliance of the employer, but also to protect the interests of the employees.
01:39So that the government can continue to contribute to Pekisu and EPF.
01:48The reason why we look forward to this MOU is mainly on two areas of concern.
01:54One is the compliance of the aviation industry.
01:59We want to ensure that the employees are registered and registered under the Social Security Act of 1969 and the Employment Insurance System Act of 2017.
02:14By having this collaboration, we will have an exchange of data.
02:19We want to ensure that all employees under the aviation industry are registered and registered.
02:28This is to ensure the welfare and social protection of this group of workers.
02:35Number two, we also look forward to better collaboration in terms of job placement and also opening for this aviation industry.
02:45As you know that during COVID, quite a number of aviation industries were badly affected.
02:55In terms of all from ground staff up to the technical crew which was affected badly.
03:06So with this collaboration, we look forward to assisting the aviation industries by having specific job fairs, job career programs.
03:19By getting collaboration with MAFCOM and the industries, we look forward to assist job seekers within these industries to be placed.
03:30I was just wondering from your cross-check data, is it rampant this misconduct?
03:38And what are you planning to do with those who were affected in 2020 to 2022?
03:44Because there will be a lot of backlog too.
03:46Okay, talking about the compliance.
03:53Actually, all the licensees are subjected to the license conditions that we impose.
04:02Because one of the conditions is that they must comply to contribute to the statutory contribution to EPAF and so on.
04:14We found out that after the pandemic especially, we found that some of them failed.
04:20Is it a lot or is it minority?
04:23I don't have the number but there are some.
04:26Some of the industry players failed.
04:29Not all, but failed to contribute to the procurator for example.
04:38Some are having problems but sometimes we want to know whether they have an approach.
04:46How to solve the problem?
04:53I know some have counter-punishal difficulties but they have to approach the respective statutory bodies.
05:04If there are some sort of agreements then we are okay with it.
05:09But we just want to ensure that all the employees are well taken care of and they are not run away from their responsibilities.
05:20I would say it is not critical. It is not rampant.
05:24It is not, I mean, in terms of percentage, the big numbers, the percentage of non-compliance is very, very high.
05:37I would say that it is just a small number of these small companies within aviation, maybe they are not aware.
05:45But as mentioned by Dato Sri, actually during COVID, it happened because maybe they want to reduce their costs.
05:54But post-COVID, maybe either they continue or they oversee.
06:02Maybe they don't put that as priority to register and also to contribute.
06:11That is the reason why it continues.
06:13But it is not, I would say that it is not rampant. It is just small numbers.
06:18Let me put it this way.
06:21Before a license is issued or renewed to any particular company, what I call the contribution to the,
06:33the statutory contribution is one of the areas that we look into.
06:37There are other aspects. If we work for the financial prospect, financial health of the companies.
06:44So this is one of the aspects that we look into.
06:48Not because they did not contribute to Perkeso, then we did not renew the license. It is not so.
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