Part time job service provider, GoGet.my continues to empower the gig economy workers in financial protection through their integration with the Employee’s Provident Fund (EPF).
Its chief technology officer, Tai Fung Wei Tan said with their collaboration with the federal statutory body under the Finance Ministry, it breaches the gap between the gig economy space and the full time jobs.
"I believe we are the first company who has connected with EPF on an integration perspective which allows all our runners to allocate part of their earnings into savings.
"One thing we realised in a gig economy space, there isn’t a lot of financial protection for individuals who worked in that space.
"Unlike those who work for companies and possess full time jobs, they have EPF as well as their monthly salaries,” he said.
Tai Fung explained the gig economy space was different from the regular professional full time work space as not all people were lucky to have a full time job.
Therefore, he shared that there were some people who could earn jobs from their platforms; the stay at home mother, children who have responsibilities over their parents and also those who wanted to find extra incomes.
As of now, there are more than 65,000 runners or GoGetters who have registered from the GoGet platform today.
During their eight years journey providing jobs to the gig economy industry players, Tai Fung who’s also the co-founder shared they were already grounded in the Klang Valley area, Johor Bahru and Penang.
"However, they can also post jobs in other states in Malaysia, we do have the supply and demand there.
"Hopefully we do hope to grow soon and hoping to expand regionally in the near future as well in the Southeast Asia region,” he said,
With its collaboration with EPF, Tai Fung said GoGet was definitely opened for collaborations with other companies and also has already working with other companies as well.
"But if you refer to companies such as EPF, we hope to offer as much added value to our runners as we can. Maybe because as I mentioned earlier in a gig economy space, they don't have many benefits and financial protection.
"Nevertheless, as we move forward and shift the gig space towards a closed equivalent to our traditional workspace, at least in terms of benefits and protection there are a lot more surviving you can integrate,” he added.
As for his hopes for the Budget 2023, Tai Fung said he would like to see additional incentives for upskilling the B40 community as they tried to offer additional protection for the gig workers.
He further added, pivoting from logistics to the part-time workspace, they also focused on upskilling people who didn’t have skills previously.
"Hopefully after applying and learning fome of the skills they might be able to apply for a full-time job after that.
"I would really like to see if there are incentives that can help uplift this, maybe Human Resources Department Fund (HRDF) for the gig workers, pick up new skills so they can upskill themselves to a similar manner how we tried to help uplift them, that would be great,” he said.