The labour market has been improving since last December with a lower unemployment rate of 4.2 percent with 687,600 unemployed while employment continued to rise, according to the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM) in a statement on the Statistics of Labour Force Malaysia, December and Fourth Quarter of 2021.

Chief statistician Mohd Uzir Mahidin said the Covid-19 pandemic which hit the global economy for two consecutive years had hindered a full and balanced recovery of the labour market.

He said to address the situation...