KUALA LUMPUR: A labour market intervention step should be implemented by focusing on middle-income workers, who are being squeezed, as reported by the...
: A labour market intervention step should be implemented by focusing on middle-income workers, who are being squeezed, as reported by the Ministry of Finance in the Economic Outlook 2024, said Human Resources Minister, V. Sivakumar
He said that the Department of Statistics Malaysia report last year showed that the composition of semi-skilled workers was the highest at 58 per cent, while 30 per cent were skilled workers and the remaining 12 per cent were low-skilled workers, out of a total of 15.4 million workers. Sivakumar said that looking at the data released by DOSM in 2022, the salaried income of the people increased to 62.8 per cent, due to the increase in the minimum wage in that year.
Meanwhile, Sivakumar said that his ministry, through the Human Resource Development Corporation, is committed to encouraging employees to continue to improve their knowledge base, through skills training based on Technical and Vocational Education and Training programmes. Meanwhile, Health Minister, Dr Zaliha Mustafa, when winding up the debate for her ministry, said that the Ministry of Health is working with the Ministry of Higher Education to lift the moratorium on the opening of new private nursing colleges.
“Other efforts include increasing the number of MOH-sponsored nursing diploma trainees from 1,000 to 2,000 every year,” she said.
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