More Malaysians being hired


PETALING JAYA: More jobless Malaysians have been hired in the past several months, indicating that businesses are expanding again.

But with over 670,000 people still unemployed and over 1.8 million tertiary educated Malaysians suffering from skill-related underemployment, the labour market still has some way to go to recover to pre-pandemic levels.

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