Looks like this is a Private Funded Initiative (PFI) to outsource Immigration departments functions to a private company to help immigration save costs/ For the RM38 per foreign worker RENEWAL fee, MyEG has to : 1) host, compile, verify, maintain and perform analysis of a database on migrant workers; 2) provide intelligence reports to immigration which includes trends of illegal workers and suspicious employers which have disproportionate number of foreign workers running away; 3) liable and pay for the deportation of migrant workers who are wrongly issued work permits without the necessary insurance and indemnities; (this means the immigration dept is placing the burden and penalty of wrongful renewal on MyEG to ensure they do a proper job). 4) Hand-deliver the work permits to the employers and verify their receipts using a bio-metric scanner. Based on the above, it seems govt essentially outsourced without cost, much of the functions of the immigration department to a private company who could probably do it more efficiently but got the employers to pay for it. In my opinion, point 4 - the hand delivering and verifying the work permits directly to the employers would be very expensive already and that for delivery of single permits to an employer would mean that MyEG wont make much money on the RM38 fee. MyEG would probably make most of the money from the permits of employers with hundreds or thousands of workers. I am all for this outsourcing IF immigration can translate the savings into either a reduction in their yearly operating and capex budget (and hence wont use more of our tax money) or transfer the budget towards better enforcement efforts on legal and illegal migrant workers. My earlier post on this yesterday: https://facebook/lim.siansee/posts/1612240492328072 --- - See more at: themalaymailonline/malaysia/article/fee-not-just-for-migrant-worker-permits-myeg-says-after-uproar#sthash.7XQn7OOz.dpuf
Posted on: Sat, 10 Jan 2015 03:51:44 +0000
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