APPENDIX X
Scope of Statutory Provident Fund Schemes in Selected Asian Countries
Country
INDIA
MALAYSIA
Persons Protected
Employees in specified industrial, commercial and plantation enterprises having 20 or more workers (at the end of March 1972, 127 types of industries were covered by the Provident Fund). Separate schemes exist for miners, railway workers and public employees.
Employees aged 16 or over
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compulsory after one month with the same employer unless coverage agreed from the start of employ- ment.)
Persons Specifically Excluded
Fersons whose earnings exceed 1,000 rupees a month unless already a member (no wage ceiling for newspaper employees). Exemptions allow ed for workers in equivalent private plans).
Domestic worker. unless they elect to be covered voluntarily), cutworkers, seafisherBun, al persons employed for less than 1 month who do not apply for immediate inclusion.
SINGAPORE
SRI LANKA
All employees earning more than $10 per month plus special categories of self-employed workers.
All employees in the private sector and in public corporations, including casual workers, with exemption for employees cov- ered by private schemes.
Persons earning less than $10 per month.
Persons employed by the day, family workers and public employees.
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