KAJANG: Home Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin (pix) called on more employers and companies to provide jobs for former drug addicts.
He said that from January until September this year, a total of 1,109 employers and companies opened their doors to former drug addicts, providing jobs to 39,791 people under supervision (OKP) until July this year.
“Based on studies concerning drug rehabilitation, employment factor is one of the components that determine the success of rehabilitation for drug addicts.
“The job offers former addicts an opportunity to better themselves towards realising their goals, improving family and social relationships and building their social stability,“ he said when opening the National Anti-Drug Agency (AADK) programme here today. Also present was AADK director-general Datuk Seri Zulkifli Abdullah.
Muhyiddin said as tabled in the 2019 Budget, the government provides tax exemption to employers that employ former drug-addicts.
This, he said, was with the hope that it would encourage employers or companies to take AADK clients as their employees.
“This can be seen as corporate social responsibility (CSR) apart from reducing the country’s dependence on foreign workers and unemployment problem,“ he said. — Bernama
