Covid-19: N Sembilan unemployment rate rises to 3.6pct

Negeri Sembilan’s unemployment rate rose to 3.6 percent in the second quarter of this year compared to 3.3 percent recorded in the first quarter, following the Covid-19 pandemic, the Negeri Sembilan state assembly was told today.

State Human Resources, Plantation, and Non-Muslim Affairs Action Committee chairperson J Arul Kumar said this brought the total number of unemployed individuals in the state to 35,000...