KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 21 — Malaysian government and companies must address mounting allegations of workplace abuse of migrant labourers who fuel the country's economy, or face risks to its export-reliant growth model, experts warn.

PUTRAJAYA, Oct 8 — The unemployment rate in Malaysia for August 2021 declined by 4.6 per cent to 748,800 persons versus 778,200 persons in July 2021 amid more economic activities permitted to resume, the Statistics of Labour Force, Malaysia, August 2021 disclosed today.

PUTRAJAYA, Sept 9 — The number of unemployed persons in Malaysia increased slightly by 1.2 per cent in July this year to post a total of 778,200 persons compared to 768,700 persons in the previous month.

PUTRAJAYA, Aug 19 — Malaysia's labour market showed improvement in the second quarter of 2021 compared to a year ago but has yet to return to pre-pandemic level, said chief statistician Datuk Seri Dr Mohd Uzir Mahidin.

KUALA LUMPUR, June 18 — FGV Holdings Bhd will be appointing an independent auditor to conduct an assessment on its operations which are deemed to be against the 11 International Labour Organisation (ILO) indicators of forced labour, as advised by the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

HANOI, June 17 — Australia is looking to recruit Southeast Asian farmworkers as the pandemic and a new free-trade deal with the UK exacerbates labour shortages in the nation’s AUD66 billion (US$51 billion or RM210.9 billion)-a-year agriculture industry, reported VNA.

ANKARA, June 3 — The pandemic-driven labour market crisis is not going to end anytime soon, and employment growth will not be enough to cover the losses suffered at least until 2023, according to the latest projections by the International Labor Organisation (ILO).

PUTRAJAYA, May 10 — The economic sector recorded 177,900 job vacancies in the first quarter of 2021, up by 7.2 per cent as compared to the same quarter of the preceding year, according to the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM).

PUTRAJAYA, April 22 — The government has agreed to extend the Labour Recalibration Programme to employers in services subsectors, according to Home Minister Datuk Seri Hamzah Zainudin.

KUALA LUMPUR, March 8 — The unemployment rate in January 2021 increased slightly to 4.9 per cent against 4.8 per cent in December 2020, said the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM).

KUALA LUMPUR, March 1 — Sime Darby Plantation Bhd (SDP) has appointed Impactt Ltd as a third-party assessor to its newly established expert stakeholder human rights assessment commission, to conduct a comprehensive evaluation of SDP’s labour practices across its Malaysian operations.

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 11 — Malaysia’s unemployment rate rose by a marginal 0.1 percentage point month-on-month to 4.8 per cent in November 2020 with 764,400 unemployed persons, the Department of Statistics Malaysia said today.

BANGKOK, Dec 15 — Some 81 million jobs are lost from the Asia-Pacific labour markets as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic while women and young people are disproportionately hit, according to a report by the International Labour Organisation (ILO).

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 11 — Malaysia’s unemployment rate rose by 0.1 percentage point month-on-month to 4.7 per cent in October 2020, said the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM) today.

PUTRAJAYA, July 14 — The unemployment rate in Malaysia rose to 5.3 per cent in May this year, registering 826,100 unemployed persons, the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM) reported today.