Non-resident workers accounted for all of the employment decline, reported Singapore’s MOM.
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Employees, especially those with high allowances, are likely to see a major change in their salary structures if the new wage code kicks in from April 1.
A blanket increase of the retirement age to 65 and beyond could adversely impact the labour market, causing unemployment among younger workers.
Under the country’s five-year plan, the retirement age will be raised in a “phased manner”, said China's Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security.
The government is currently preparing additional measures to help local SMEs, which will cover up to 50 to 80% of SMEs various expenses.
Diversity is key to address the challenges facing the semiconductor industry, the inaugural Semiconductor Women’s Forum highlighted.
Malaysia’s graduate employability rate fell to 84.4% in 2020, down marginally from 86.2% year-on-year, said its Ministry of Higher Education (MoHE).
This help included outreach activities, expanding career conversion programmes, and introducing job transformation programmes.
The number of employees in the industrial and service sectors at the end of January increased by 0.18% or 15,000 to 8.17 million from December 2020.
In its 2021 Government Work Report delivered in early March, the government highlighted its plan to create 11 million jobs in 2021.
Minister of information and communications Nguyen Manh Hung has said the country plans to implement a digital government by 2025.
The extended scheme will see the government’s guarantee on loans increase to an 80/20 split with the banks, an increase from the current 50/50 split.
“Joblessness is a result of ‘jablessness’ ... Mass inoculation is the cure to mass unemployment,” senate president pro tempore Ralph Recto has said.
Singapore’s Manpower Minister also highlighted that a welcome change in the workplace would be having more women representation in company boards.
The government is adopting a “granular” approach instead of hard lockdowns to address a stubbornly high unemployment rate.
Women are more likely to be in vulnerable employment and also more likely to be in the category of unpaid contributing family worker.
The net number of people getting off the unemployment benefit has increased for the first time since the start of the pandemic.
The new initiatives would cater to Malaysians and businesses that are the most affected by the pandemic, said the finance minister.
Prime Minister Hun Sen has issued a directive for all government institutions and the legislative body to adopt work-from-home practices for one week.
The third phase of its handouts would allow for financial assistance for public services, such as public transport costs.
Employers are taking a wait-and-see approach when it comes to hiring, says the Malaysian Employers Federation (MEF).
The scheme will see the government subsidise half of the wages for 70,000 apprentices for 12 months, incentivising businesses to hire younger workers.
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The pandemic has not only worsened existing gender inequalities, but also created new ones, said the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in Vietnam.
In February, 114,101 newly unemployed workers registered for financial aid, while 487,143 people updated their unemployment status.
Entrepreneur development and cooperatives minister has said SMEs must ready themselves with digital technology.
Some 63.6% of the largest 500 companies in South Korea surveyed said that they have no plans for recruitment.
The Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) has said the country’s unemployment rate has fallen to 6.9% in February from 7.3% last July.
The government has replaced the Movement Control Order (MCO) in Selangor, Kuala Lumpur, Johor and Penang to a conditional MCO (CMCO).