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Malaysian firms set to get pick of skilled local workers

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Published Sun, Jan 5, 2020 · 09:50 PM

    Singapore

    THANKS to Malaysia's Budget 2020, Malaysian companies can look forward to a more highly-skilled labour force and incentives when recruiting locals in the new year.

    This is the take-away from a study by Yeah Kim Leng, director of the economic studies programme at Jeffrey Cheah Institute on South-east Asia at Sunway University in Malaysia.

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