With the release of Employee Self Setup (also known as onboarding), employers can say goodbye to the paperwork associated with hiring new employees. The feature lets employers manage the onboarding process from start to finish quickly and seamlessly. It also makes your onboarding process a lot more simple.
Getting started
- On the Personal Details page some details are pre-populated according to what your employer has entered for you. You can now fill in the remaining fields:
- Title
- First name
- Middle name
- Surname
- Date of Birth
- Gender
- Residential Address (To pre-fill an address, start typing the address and click on a suggestion. or 'Can't find your address above?' option from the address dropdown field)
- Postal Address is same as residential
- Mobile Phone
- Use my personal details to find existing superfunds: Yes/No
- The next page of the setup process is Banking Details. You can add multiple bank accounts and select how much pay goes into each account.
Enter your account details:
- Account name
- Sort Code
- Account Number
- Roll Number (optional)
- Pay into this account: select from:
- The entire amount;
- A specified amount;
- A percentage of their pay
- ITN / TRN: (required). This field is immediately validated and you will only be able to proceed if the number is correct.
- Nationality: Select the applicable nationality from the drop down box.
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Residence status: The residence status is a drop down field and allows you to select 'resident' or 'non resident'. If you hover over the tool tip you'll see further information about what constitutes residence status. This setting will affect the employees tax calculations. The following residence status/types are available:
- Non resident > Non Malaysian: In this scenario, the employee's passport number and passport issuing country are required fields. The SSFW (Social Security Foreign Worker number) is also required.
- Non resident > Malaysian: In this scenario, the employee's identity card number is a required field.
- Resident > Malaysian: In this scenario, the employee's identity card number is a required field. The worker status is and allows you to select between normal, returning expert program, knowledge worker, and affects the employees tax rate.
- Resident > Non Malaysian: In this scenario, the employee's passport number and passport issuing country are required fields. The SSFW (Social Security Foreign Worker number) is also required. The worker status is and allows you to select between normal, returning expert program, knowledge worker, and affects the employees tax rate.
- Resident > Permanent resident of Malaysia: In this scenario, the employee's identity card number is a required field. The worker status is and allows you to select between normal, returning expert program, knowledge worker, and affects the employees tax rate.
- EPF Number: This field is optional for reporting purposes.
- EPF rate: This field has since been set to view only starting 1 July 2022 when the reduced rate of 9% was readjusted back to the regular rate. System will default to 'Automatic - default EPF rate' and is currently applying the regular rate of 11%.
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SOCSO: The options here will depend on the employee's residence status and residence type settings. If they are a resident or permanent resident you are able to select the following:
- Employment injury scheme
- Employment injury and invalidity scheme
Once the employee has clicked 'Finish' the system will remind them of any steps that have not been completed.
If at any stage the employee has skipped a step, the system will provide a link at the end that will take them back to the incomplete page.
Alternatively, the employee can continue to access the self setup via the original link in their email. Until they complete all steps of the self setup, they will continue to receive reminder notification emails. The frequency of these emails will depend on what was configured when the employee self setup was first initiated.
Once the employee has finished the self setup process, they can select the Click here button to finish the process.