Malaysia's unemployment rate rises to 5.3% in May

However, the chief statistician says there were fewer employed persons temporarily out of work. FMTNews Unemployment

The Department of Statistics says the number of unemployed individuals went up by 47,300 to 826,100 in May.

However, he said the monthly change of unemployed persons in May was much lower than the change of 168,300 registered from March to April. “This group of people, who were most likely not able to work from home, was not categorised as unemployed as they had work to return to,” he said. Those affected were in the services sector, mainly related to tourism, accommodation, events planning, arts and entertainment, and sports and recreation.

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