The government should establish a mechanism that would link the Social Security Fund (FSS) dues to employees’ income, panellist Dicky Lai Wai Leung proposed at yesterday’ Macau Forum.
The forum, which is held every Sunday in Areia Preta Park, is a weekly public debate programme run by government-owned broadcaster TDM. About a dozen audience members attended yesterday’s forum.
The forum was about the fund’s announcement last week that the monthly dues paid by employers and employees will be increased from the current 45 patacas to 90 patacas from the beginning of next year, with the ratio that both sides contribute remaining unchanged at 1:2.
Victor Lei Kuok Fai (first from right), who chairs the Federal General Commercial Association of Macau Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises, lawmakers Ella Lei Cheng I (second from right) and Song Pek Kei (second from left) and Dicky Lai Wai Leung, a social work professor at the Macau Polytechnic Institute (IPM), participate in yesterday’s forum in Areia Preta Park. Photo: Debby Seng
