KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 9 —The Youth and Sports Ministry wants to restructure the Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) programme by providing courses on weekends.

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 1 -- The New Industrial Master Plan 2030 (NIMP 2030) aims to increase the manufacturing sector’s value-added by 6.5 per cent to RM587.5 billion by 2030, derived from the master plan’s “interventions” for high-impact sectors, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said.

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 7 — The proposed Progressive Salary Policy will be brought to the Cabinet for fine-tuning and to study the need to provide funds as incentives for its gradual implementation, said Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 3 — Communications and Digital Minister Fahmi Fadzil sees the Madani economy in the framework of digitalisation as being able to create wide employment opportunities because it contains various sectors including programming, cyber security and e-commerce.

By Nina Farzuin Md Sharom SHAH ALAM, July 16 — Selangor has created 89,000 new job opportunities in the past five years, benefiting not only local residents but also residents from Sabah and Sarawak who moved to the state, said Dato' Seri Amirudin Shari. The Menteri Besar also assured the...

PUTRAJAYA, May 19 – The labour market has expanded 2.5 per cent in the first quarter of this year with 16.65 million persons compared to 16.25 million persons in the same period last year, according to the Labour Market Review First Quarter 2023 released by the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DoSM) today.

KUALA LUMPUR, April 10 — The unemployment rate in Malaysia dipped to 3.5 per cent in February 2023, with 591.9 thousand unemployed persons compared to 596,100 recorded in January, according to the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM).

By Sheeda Fathil SHAH ALAM, March 31 — The Selangor Mega Job Carnival will be held again in mid-May, offering up to 30,000 potential jobs for interested seekers, said state executive councillor for human capital development Mohd Khairuddin Othman. He said the carnival will take place over the...

KUALA LUMPUR, March 27 — PhD graduates in the fields of natural sciences, mathematics and statistics recorded the lowest employment rate last year at 19.6 per cent, says Deputy Higher Education Minister Senator Datuk Mohammad Yusof Apdal.

PUTRAJAYA, March 9 — The number of unemployed persons in Malaysia continued to decrease in January this year with a reduction of 0.6 per cent to 596,100 persons compared to 599,600 persons in December 2022, according to the Statistics of Labour Force Malaysia.

By Sheeda Fathil SHAH ALAM, Dec 25 — A total of 1,063 individuals have been employed through the second series of the Selangor Mega Job Fair, which ran on December 10 and 11. State executive councillor for human capital development Mohd Khairuddin Othman said out of the total, some 747...

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 21 — Employers’ optimism is up following the stronger growth of 14.2 per cent in the Malaysian economy in the third quarter of 2022 (Q2 2022: 8.9 per cent) and next year’s hiring activities should be higher, says online employment platform JobStreet Malaysia.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 4 — Measures to assist Malaysians who have been cheated and kidnapped in employment scam syndicates, especially in Southeast Asia are expected to be the focus at Dewan Rakyat today.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 3 — Malaysian manufacturers successfully hired additional staff at the end of the third quarter (Q3) of this year, resulting in the first expansion of workforce numbers in 10 months, according to the latest S&P Global Malaysia Manufacturing purchasing managers’ index (PMI) survey.

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 28 — Malaysia’s tourism industry generated RM197.9 billion of “gross value-added of tourism industries” (GVATI), contributing 12.8 per cent to the gross domestic product (GDP) in 2021, compared to 14.1 per cent in 2020, according to the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM).

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 30 — The Malaysian economy remained intact, shaped by the convincing performance of its gross domestic product (GDP), exports and imports, employment, as well as commodities data, mainly by the crude palm oil sector.

PUTRAJAYA, Aug 10 — Malaysia's labour market saw an increase of 3.2 per cent in jobs or 267,000 jobs in the second quarter of 2022, to a record 8.619 million during the period from 8.352 million in the same period last year.

KUALA LUMPUR, April 11 — Kenanga Investment Bank Bhd expects the labour market to gradually recover in 2022, underpinned by a higher vaccination rate, relaxation of pandemic-related restrictions, reopening of borders, and various policy support measures.

KUALA LUMPUR, March 15 — With strong economic catalyst, stability and full economic reopening, the job market is expected to return to the pre-pandemic level soon.

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 17 — Malaysia’s labour productivity as measured by value-added per employment picked up in the fourth quarter last year by 1.7 per cent, after falling 5.6 per cent the previous quarter.