Higher unemployment rate in Terengganu due to COVID-19
KUALA TERENGGANU, Nov 25 -- The unemployment rate in Terengganu increased to 3.8 percent in the second quarter of this year, from 3.3 per cent in the first quarter, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Terengganu State Assembly was told today.
State Entrepreneurship, Human Resources, Micro Industry and Hawkers Affairs Committee chairman Mohd Nurkhuzaini Ab Rahman said the rate was still low compared with the national rate of 5.1 per cent.
He said that based on records, the unemployment rate in Terengganu in 2018 was 4.8 per cent, which was the highest in the peninsula, but it dropped to 3.5 per cent in 2019.
He was responding to a question from Hilmi Harun (PAS-Manir) on efforts by the government to reduce the unemployment rate.
The state government through the Terengganu Human Resource Development Center (T-HRDC), he said, had collaborated with more than 20 agencies in implementing job matching programmes between employers and employees, as well as create training for new careers.
The agencies involved included the Social Security Organisation (Socso), Manpower Department, Job Malaysia, Terengganu Skilled Development Centre (Tesdec), Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT) and the Terengganu Timber Industry Training Centre (TTITC).
“T-HRDC also works with employers and industry associations that need employees, such as the Terengganu Oil and Gas Council (TOGC), which comprises 40 companies involved in oil and gas, and also automated component manufacturing companies," he said.
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