Malaysia's labour force grows 0.6pc in April, lowest since Sept 2014
Monday, 15 Jun 2020 02:21 PM MYT
Chief statistician Datuk Seri Mohd Uzir Mahidin said on month-on-month basis, the number of labour force decreased 0.8 per cent or 130,700 thousand persons as against March 2020. “The closure of operations for most of businesses during the movement control order which has been extended to April 2020 resulted in the loss of employment and jobseekers could hardly find jobs.
“Month-on-month, the number of working population decreased 299,000 as compared to March 2020 which recorded 15.23 million persons,” he said. Thus, he said the labour force participation rate in April 2020 declined 0.5 percentage points to 68.1 per cent, due to outflows from labour force to being out of the labour force.
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