Effective July 1, 2024, as per the latest announcement by PERKESO (known as SOCSO in English), expatriates and foreign workers will be covered under the Invalidity Scheme. This scheme includes 24-hour protection and funeral repatriation costs.
To ensure compliance, follow these steps to update SOCSO contributions for expatriates and foreign workers before processing payroll:
Update SOCSO Contributions for Individual Employees
- Log in to Your BrioHR Account and Click on the People icon.
- Use the Search column to find the employee by Name/ID.
- Confirm that the employee is an expatriate or foreign worker with a valid visa/pass in Malaysia.
- Click on the employee's name to be directed to their profile.
- In the employee's profile, click on the Payroll section.
- Scroll down to the Statutory Contributions section and click on the Pencil icon
to edit. - In the SOCSO field, select Insured against invalidity and employment injury.
- Click the Save button
to apply the updates.
Bulk Update SOCSO Contributions
If you need to update contributions for multiple employees, follow these steps:
- Navigate to HR Lounge > Payroll and select your Payroll Center.
- In the Dashboard, scroll down and click on Bulk Download/Upload.
- Click on Download.xlsx to download the payroll data file.
- Open the downloaded file and locate column AL (SOCSO).
- Update the SOCSO category for affected employees to Insured against invalidity and employment injury.
- Save the changes to the Excel file. Upload the updated file back to the system by selecting Upload payroll information and clicking on Upload Excel File
.
- The data will be successfully uploaded into your BrioHR account.
For further details, refer to the official memo released by PERKESO through this link or the attachments below.
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