Asean – Through the Industry Skills Training Programme, Malaysia Rail Link (MRL) and China Communications Construction Company Ltd (CCCC) are giving 5,000 work opportunities, mostly to residents on the East Coast of the peninsula (PLKI-ECRL). Zaidi Sharif, the director of MRL’s Strategies Division, stated that 500 people out of a total of 1,800 had participated in the first phase of …

Malaysia – When the RM1,500 minimum pay rate takes effect on May 1, certain job sectors, including the informal sector, will be granted flexibility, according to Human Resources Minister Datuk Seri M Saravanan. Those who earn their living by doing odd jobs, businesses with less than five employees, and industries that are experiencing significant losses, such as the hotel and …

Malaysia – Since the Covid-19 outbreak has swept the country last year, a total number of 1,003 employers in the state of Johor have closed their doors to the public. As a result, the Johor legislative assembly heard today that about 12,231 people had been laid off from their jobs. Datuk Mohd Izhar Ahmad, head of the State Investment, Entrepreneur …

Malaysia – High quality jobs and investments will enable Malaysians to enjoy a higher standard of living and also enable them to have higher savings, said Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Economy) Datuk Seri Mustapa Mohamed. “How do we plan to rebuild savings, it has got to do with incomes. There is no shortcut, we cannot simply top up …

METRO MANILA  – Nearly half of the country’s adult labor force was unemployed in July this year, a recent survey revealed by the Social Weather Stations (SWS) on Sunday. According to the survey conducted from July 3-6, 2020, unemployment in the country rises to  45.5% from  17.1% last December. a 28-point increase and a new record-high beating the 34.4% recorded …

MANILA – Philippine’s Budget carrier Cebu Pacific has announced that they will be laying off more than 1,000 employees, in the single biggest retrenchment in the local airline industry as the effects of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic continues to wreak havoc in the economy. Cebu Pacific communications director Charo Logarta Lagamon in a statement, called the move “rightsizing” …