Employers can pay foreign workers' health examination fees online

Employers of foreign workers can pay their workers' health examination fees online via the Foreign Workers Medical Examination Monitoring Agency (Fomema) employers' portal beginning yesterday.

Its CEO Datuk Mohd Hatar Ismail said the facility was introduced to enable employers to conduct their businesses faster and more efficiently via the portal at https://portal.fomema.my/.

"With the Internet facility, (the use of) scanner to scan relevant documents, making the conventional process of registration currently being conducted at Fomema branches nationwide, no longer required.

"All employers have to do is to open an account for user identity and password and register their foreign workers online via Financial Process Exchange (FPX), namely, a payment channel provided for 15 participating banks," he said in a statement here Tuesday.

He said after the employers opened their accounts, the accounts would be processed and the status of the registration would be conveyed to the employers through e-mail within two working days.

He said the existing registration method at all Fomema branches was still being continued to accommodate those employers who did not have internet facility. -- Bernama