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Better protection for workers making Socso claims
Good news for workers claiming disability pension under the Social Security Organisation (Socso), the Human Resources Ministry is pushing for changes for better protection.
Minister Datuk Dr S. Subramaniam was quoted in the media as saying that aspects of the Employees Social Security Act would be looked into, particularly to make the disability pension scheme clearer so that applicants know exactly what it was about and how their problem could be managed.
Among the issues to be sorted out, he said, was lowering the percentage of permanent disability for a worker to be eligible for the scheme from 60% to 40%.
Recruitment of doctors to be made easy
Recruitment drive of doctors in the country will be made easy, thanks to a special task force to expedite them by the Health Ministry.
Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai was quoted in the media as saying that the task force, led by ministry secretary-general Datuk Seri Mohd Nasir Mohd Ashraf, aimed to cut the recruitment process from two or three months to a month or less.
“We have been talking about the shortage of medical practitioners in the country for a long time,” he said, adding that the ministry would fix the problem as soon as possible.
Currently, he said the delay was caused by the long wait for candidates to be called in for interview and placement.
Recruitment of doctors to be made easy
Doom and gloom on the recruitment in the country aside, fast food franchiser KFC Holdings Sdn Bhd announced it aimed to creat more jobs this year.
To be more specific, it plans to create 1,200 jobs nationwide this year as it continues to expand its network of 442 outlets in Malaysia to 482 by year-end
Its managing director Jamaludin Md Ali said the company had opened six outlets year-to-date, with 160 people employed, boosting the total staff strength in the region to 19,000 currently, he said.
The locations of the new outlets include Kampung Air in Sabah, Jitra in Kedah, Tesco in Kuala Selangor and Mukah in Sarawak.
Malaysia short of engineers
Like medical practitioners, looks like Malaysia is also in shortage of engineers, which needs around 200,000 by 2020.
Institute of Engineers Malaysia (IEM) president Prof Datuk Chuah Hean Teik confirmed this, saying that it will impede the country’s development.
He said there was a need to train more engineers before the situation became critical, adding that the country would need about 200,000 engineers by 2020.
Currently, there are only 60,000 engineers in the country, Prof Chuah said.
“We should plan ahead and not wait until there is an acute shortage,” he added.
Masterskill Invests RM200 Million To Build Campus
Masterskill Education Berhad group is planning to set up a main campus for its University College of Health Sciences in Selangor, costing RM200 million for the first phase.
Its chief executive officer Datuk Edmund Santhara said the campus would have the capacity of taking in 25,000 students.
"In fact it will become a landmark, symbolising the success of a world class higher learning institution," he was quoted in a media report.
Edmund said another campus with a college status would be opened in Kuching with an investment of RM30 million.
(Source: Jobsdb Malaysia)
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