PUTRAJAYA, May 23 — The national labour market remained robust in the first quarter of 2025 (Q1 2025) with a 17.23 million labour force and a stable 3.1 per cent unemployment rate, according to the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM).

PUTRAJAYA, May 15 — Malaysia’s labour demand rose 1.4 per cent in the first quarter (Q1) of 2025, reaching 9.06 million jobs compared to 8.94 million in the same period last year, according to the Employment Statistics released today by the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM).

PUTRAJAYA, May 9 — Malaysia’s labour market continued to chart steady progress in the first quarter of 2025, with key indicators showing growth in employment and labour force participation, coupled with a decline in the unemployment rate, according to the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM).

By Suhaila Shahrul Annuar GOMBAK, April 19 — Approximately 4,318 job opportunities were offered at the 2025 Selangor JobCare Carnival for the Gombak district today, with salaries reaching up to RM13,000. Menteri Besar Dato’ Seri Amirudin Shari said 3,074 of the vacancies offered exceed the...

By Yasmin Ramlan SHAH ALAM, Jan 17 — Malaysian youths have expressed their concerns that raising the retirement age in favour of the older generations could limit job opportunities for fresh graduates and create unfair competition in the job market. Instead, they urged the government to...

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 14 — The number of jobs in the economic sector increased by 1.5 per cent to record 8.96 million in the second quarter of 2024, according to Employment Statistics released by the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM) today.

PUTRAJAYA, May 15 — The number of jobs in the first quarter (Q1) of this year increased by 1.5 per cent to 8.94 million, the highest recorded since 2018, according to the Employment Statistics, First Quarter 2024 released today.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 10 — The labour market in Malaysia is expected to strengthen further in 2023 and 2024, backed by encouraging momentum in the domestic economy, said MIDF Research.

PUTRAJAYA, Oct 10 — The number of unemployed persons decreased by 0.3 per cent in August 2023 to 577,300 from 579,200 people last month, while the unemployment rate remained at 3.4 per cent.

KUALA LUMPUR, July 10 — The strengthening of Malaysia’s job market will further reinforce consumer consumption and support overall Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth this year, said MIDF Research.

KUALA LUMPUR, May 11 — Malaysia’s labour demand continues to show an upward trend with a 2.7 per cent increase in the total number of jobs in the first quarter of 2023 (ST1 2023), thus exceeding the pre-pandemic level, said the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM).

KUALA LUMPUR, May 1 — The World Economic Forum (WEF) has revealed that almost a quarter of jobs, or 23 per cent, are expected to change in the next five years via a 10.2 per cent growth in some jobs, and a 12.3 per cent decline in others as a result of technology and digitalisation, according to a publication The Future of Jobs Report 2023.

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 30 — MIDF Research expects Malaysia’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth to moderate to 4.2 per cent in 2023 after registering a strong growth of eight per cent this year.

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 17 — The labour market continued its recovery at a steady pace in the third quarter (Q3) of 2022, with the unemployment rate lowered to 3.7 per cent as compared to 4.7 per cent in the same quarter of 2021 and slowly returning to how it was before the pandemic.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 25 — The number of employed persons in 2021 was 15.06 million, with 1.5 million of them involved in the agriculture sector, according to the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM).

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 18 — Malaysia's labour productivity as measured by value added per employment in the second quarter this year (Q2 2022) went up 5.5 per cent to record RM23,322 per person compared to RM23,124 per person in the previous quarter.

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 12 — Total jobs in the economic sector were lower by 0.4 per cent to 8.35 million in the second quarter of 2021 (Q2 2021), the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM) reported today.