Over 100k re-employed under Socso's placement programme

PARLIAMENT | 120,926 job seekers from 372,934 registered with the Social Security Organisation (Socso)'s Re-Employment Placement programme during the lockdown period have been re-employed.

Human Resources Minister M Saravanan (above) also said Malaysia's unemployment rate has recorded a downward trend with this month's rate expected to be 4.5 percent.

The official unemployment rate for September was 4.6 percent, meaning...