Taiwan’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate improves to 3.43% in July, industrial and services sectors boost employment

Taiwan’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate fell to 3.43% in July 2023, down from 3.68% in July 2022, according to data from the Directorate General of Budget Accounting and Statistics (DGBAS).

On a monthly basis, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate declined by 0.02% to 3.43%.

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Saramin HR signs agreement with Fast Campus for job competency enhancement and recruitment innovation

South Korea-based job board Saramin announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Fast Campus, an adult education content company also based in South Korea, to strengthen job competency and recruit innovation.

Through this agreement, the two companies plan to work closely together to...

Woman in China who held 16 jobs at once over three years and never went to work caught by police (South China Morning Post)

A woman in China who fraudulently juggled separate jobs with 16 different companies simultaneously, amassing enough cash to buy a villa in Shanghai, was arrested during a job interview, reports South China Morning Post. The ‘wage cheater’ Guan Yue’s...

India white collar hiring falls 6% in August on cautious sentiment in IT, auto sectors: Naukri

White collar hiring in India saw a 6% year-on-year decline in August following cautious sentiment in IT, insurance, auto, healthcare and BPO (business processing outsourcing) sectors, according to the latest Naukri JobSpeak Index and the Press Trust of India.

In August 2023 there were 2,666 job postings,...

Malaysia rolls out new industrial master plan, expects to create over 3 million jobs (New Straits Times)

Malaysia rolled out its fourth industrial master plan last week, which aims to revitalise the country's manufacturing sector and increase its value-added turnaround to MYR 587.5 billion (USD 126.0 billion) by 2030, reports The New Straits Times. Dubbed as the New Industrial Master Plan 2030 (NIMP 2030)...

India may add 700,000 gig jobs by November ahead of festive season (New Indian Express)

Nearly 700,000 new gig jobs are expected to be created across India ahead of the festive season, reports The New Indian Express, citing a TeamLease Services report. The report has forecasted about 400,000 new gig jobs across South Indian cities alone in the ecommerce sector. Bengaluru (40%), followed...

Migrant worker groups petition Taiwan’s labour ministry to end private broker system (Focus Taiwan)

Several organisations representing migrant workers in Taiwan petitioned the Ministry of Labour on Monday to end the country’s ‘exploitative’ labour broker system and replace it with a system solely based on direct hiring between governments, reports Focus Taiwan. The groups, including the Taiwan...

Singapore Ministry of Manpower fines and convicts three companies in false salary declaration case

Three firms in Singapore as well as four individuals who were their former directors, were convicted last week of multiple offences under the country’s Employment of Foreign Manpower Act and the Employment Act.

The companies convicted include Mini Environment Service, Labourtel Management Corporation,...

Japanese department store workers to stage first strike since 1950s (Financial Times)

Workers at one of Tokyo’s most famous department stores are to shatter tradition and go on strike for the first time since the 1950s, reports The Financial Times. Customers of the Seibu department store in Ikebukuro were warned on its website that the shop would be closed all day on Thursday last week,...