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Cabinet approves progressive wage policy, details to be tabled in Budget 2024, says Rafizi
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8/24/2023
The progressive wage system policy has been approved at the Cabinet level and the details will be tabled in the upcoming Budget 2024 in October.
Economy Minister Rafizi Ramli said the system is expected to be implemented in April or May next year.
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On the wage progressive policy, yesterday was discussed after MPAN principally approved
00:07
the model that you proposed. So what kind of allocation are we looking at?
00:15
Wait for the budget.
00:17
So it will be in the budget?
00:19
Most probably it will be in the budget. The policy has been approved in terms of the principle and the approach.
00:31
Then we have to go through a series of processes, including bringing it down to all the stakeholders.
00:40
We also have to see at what level do we want to come in. When I say level, I mean at what coverage,
00:52
at what specific groups, and that obviously will translate into what kind of financial commitment
01:00
the government has to make. But the Prime Minister gave an indication of some numbers, but we'll go through the budget process.
01:10
So most probably there will be an indication in the 2021 budget due to be announced in October.
01:19
But the implementation targets for the first rollout sometime in April or May. So that means that the financial allocation
01:33
has to be made for 2024, which is why I think the announcement will be included in the budget.
01:45
[inaudible]
01:56
The budget is actually a lot of adjustments to the six countries. We have three categories,
02:09
if I don't know which economy to use. Nine is actually not correct. There are three different categories.
02:21
I think you have to see the three categories on a case-by-case basis. One is the ones that have been given priority,
02:29
which are Sarawak, Sabah, Kelantan, Terengganu, Kedah and Perlis. These six countries have been given priority
02:43
in terms of the allocation of development for the past year. So they get 50% of the national allocation for the last few years.
02:54
So that's one category. Another category is the countries that have their own economic growth and development
03:06
without much of a cut from the government. Those are the Philippines, the Selangor and the Perlis.
03:19
Then we have four countries in the middle. We have Peru, Johor, the nine countries and Malacca.
03:32
The allocation is actually the lowest among the nine countries, especially the nine countries, Malacca and Peru.
03:43
They are not rich but they are not that poor. So they don't get a lot.
03:50
So that's actually a challenge and some changes that we have to make because we have to be fair to countries like Peru,
04:03
the nine countries and Malacca, other than giving priority to the countries that have been given priority before.
04:14
That's what we have to differentiate.
04:17
Thank you.
04:19
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