February 28, 2010 13:50 PM
36,000 Malaysians Unemployed As At Dec 2009, Says Maznah
ROMPIN, Feb 28 (Bernama) -- Some 36,000 Malaysians were unemployed between October 2008 and December last year or 3.6 per cent of the total population, Deputy Human Resources Minister Datuk Maznah Mazlan said.
She said most of the unemployed were those being laid off from the manufacturing sector which was badly affected by the recession in the United States in 2008.
"Due to the economic crisis in the US, many workers were temporarily laid off. Companies in the manufacturing sector had to reduce their production due to the drop in demand," she told reporters after attending a Chap Goh Mei celebration here Saturday night.
However, Maznah said the number was still under control compared to the 84,000 laid offs during the Asian economic crisis in 1997.
She said the ministry managed to get some 29,000 of the laid off workers to be rehired while the rest were offered retraining.
-- BERNAMA
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