KUCHING: Welfare, Community Wellbeing, Women, Family and Childhood Development Minister Datuk Seri Fatimah Abdullah has lauded the incentive for women to return to work, saying it would enhance the success rate in the workforce.
“This is good, as record shows that re-entry of women into the workforce has not been encouraging. Therefore with this incentive for women and employers, hopefully the success rate will be better,” she told New Sarawak Tribune yesterday when asked to comment on Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng’s statement in the 2020 Budget on providing incentive to women to return to the workforce.
Fatimah also mentioned the need for support system such as child care centre at the workplace, early childhood education institutions has to be increased and the operators also needed assistance.
Lim, in his 2020 Budget presented in Parliament yesterday said “#WomenWork aims to create 33 thousand job opportunities for women between the ages of 30 and 50 who have stopped working for a year or more.
“Women who go back to work will be given a salary incentive of two years as much as RM500 a month, while the employer will be given hiring incentive of RM300 a month for the same period. In addition, income tax exemptions for women returning to work will be extended for another four years through 2023.”
