PUTRAJAYA, Aug 10 — Malaysia’s labour market saw an increase of 3.2 per cent in jobs or 267,000 jobs in the second quarter of 2022, to record 8.619 million during the period from 8.352 million in the same period last year.
It said the number of job vacancies was 191,000 in the second quarter of 2022 from 178,000 in the same quarter of 2021 with a rate of 2.2 per cent, while the number of jobs created edged up to 29,400 during the quarter from 16,180 previously. It said the manufacturing sector posted the largest share of job vacancies at 55.9 per cent, followed by agriculture , services sector , construction , and mining and quarrying .