MEF lauds govt efforts to create more jobs, make graduates more employable

The Malaysian Employers Federation (MEF) on March 4 lauded and expressed its full support of the government’s initiatives to re-energise the economy.

马来西亚雇主联合会（MEF）3月4日赞扬并表示全力支持政府重振经济的举措。

President Datuk Dr Syed Hussain Syed Husman said the efforts of various ministries have made unemployed graduates more marketable.

Datuk Dr Syed Hussain Syed Husman表示，各部委的努力使失业毕业生更具市场价值。

He noted the Finance Ministry’s financial support under the JaminKerja initiative and the Human Resources Ministry’s efforts in the form of training and retraining, upskilling and reskilling efforts by the Human Resource Development Corporation, as well as various supports from its agencies Talent Corporation and the Social Security Organisation (Socso).

他指出，财政部在JaminKerja倡议下提供了财政支持，人力资源部以人力资源开发公司以培训和再培训，提高技能和再技能工作的形式做出了努力，以及其机构人才公司和社会保障组织（Socso）的各种支持。

"We in MEF support all initiatives that the government is undertaking (in the spirit of) togetherness to build back our economy.

"我们MEF支持政府正在采取的所有举措（本着）团结精神，以重建我们的经济。

"We must appreciate and be grateful that the current government has done much for the businesses and the rakyat, despite (having) limited resources due to the pandemic," he said in a statement on 4 March.

"我们必须欣赏并感激现任政府为企业和人民做了很多事情，尽管由于大流行（资源有限），"他在3月4日的一份声明中说。

According to Syed Hussain, the three JaminKerja initiatives — the JaminKerja Hiring Incentive, the Malaysia Short-Term Employment Programme (MySTEP) and Training and Skills Development Programmes — are targeted to create 600,000 jobs, with a total of 300,000 job placements to be made under the JaminKerja Hiring Incentives, 22,000 under the Training and Skills Development Programme, and 80,000 under MySTEP. 

根据Syed Hussain的说法，JaminKerja的三项举措 - JaminKerja招聘激励，马来西亚短期就业计划（MySTEP）和培训和技能发展计划 - 旨在创造600，000个工作岗位，总共300，000个工作岗位将根据JaminKerja招聘激励措施，22，000个在培训和技能发展计划下，80，000个在MySTEP下。

Five special task forces will be established to help achieve the targets, he noted.

他指出，将成立五个特别工作组，以帮助实现这些目标。

Syed Hussain, who is also a member of the National Employment Council chaired by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob, said the economic recovery and various initiatives to create more job opportunities have already shown positive results with 42,166 people finding new employment and 1,200 jobs created up to January 2022.

Syed Hussain也是由首相Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob担任主席的国家就业委员会成员，他表示，经济复苏和创造更多就业机会的各种举措已经显示出积极的结果，截至2022年1月，已有42，166人找到了新工作，创造了1，200个就业机会。

He said it is important to maintain this momentum to ensure that the objective of having below 4% unemployment is attained.

他说，重要的是要保持这一势头，以确保实现失业率低于4%的目标。

"Achieving four per cent and below unemployment is critical as by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) standards, any country with an unemployment rate of four per cent and below will be recognised as having full employment," he added.

"实现4%及以下的失业率至关重要，因为根据国际劳工组织（ILO）的标准，任何失业率为4%及以下的国家都将被视为拥有充分就业，"他补充说。

He also commended the Higher Education Ministry’s efforts to rebrand TVET (technical and vocational education and training) to be seen as mainstream education with a high rate of employability, thus giving more options to young Malaysians for their career progression. 

他还赞扬高等教育部努力重塑TVET（技术和职业教育与培训）的品牌，使其被视为具有高就业率的主流教育，从而为马来西亚年轻人的职业发展提供更多选择。

Syed Hussain said the untiring efforts of the Special Task Force to Facilitate Business (PEMUDAH), headed by Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Economy) Datuk Seri Mustapa Mohamed, to improve various processes to facilitate businesses have also played a great part in rebuilding the economy, following the Covid-19 pandemic.

Syed Hussain表示，由首相府（经济）部长Datuk Seri Mustapa Mohamed领导的促进商业特别工作组（PEMUDAH）为改善各种流程以促进企业的不懈努力，在Covid-19大流行之后，在重建经济方面也发挥了重要作用。

"The government has done its share. We, the businesses, must do ours and the rakyat must abide strictly by the standard operating procedures and (practise) good hygiene to control the spread of Covid-19, especially the Omicron variant, to ensure our economic recovery efforts are fully on track," he added.

"政府已经尽了自己的一份力量。我们，企业，必须做我们的，人民必须严格遵守标准操作程序和（实践）良好的卫生习惯，以控制Covid-19的传播，特别是Omicron变体，以确保我们的经济复苏努力完全走上正轨，"他补充说。