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PENDANG: Almost 150,000 job seekers managed to find work through the Hiring Incentive Program, PenjanaKerjaya, in the six months after its launch in June.
Vice Minister of Human Resources Awang Hashim said that the job applicants, which consisted of people who lost their jobs, graduates and graduates of school, were placed with 47,000 employers across the country.
“Since the program began, the Social Security Organization (Socso) has organized 12 large-scale PenjanaKerjaya carnivals and employer representatives were present to interview candidates to fill vacancies in their respective companies.
“Six of these were virtual carnivals comprising 28 locations, while for small interviews, 242 programs have been implemented,” he said at a press conference after officiating the 2020 PenjanaKerjaya Carnival at the Kedah level here today.
PenjanaKerjaya was announced by Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin under the National Economic Recovery Plan (PENJANA) in June, offering financial incentives of between RM600 and RM1,000 to employers for each employee or trainee hired for up to six months.
Awang said that RM 160.66 million had been allocated to employers who had hired employees through PenjanaKerjaya as of December 23.
He said the incentive will continue throughout the 2021 Budget with an allocation of RM2 billion plus some new and improved incentives.
“This includes training programs for the apprenticeship category and the hiring incentive rate has increased from 40% to 60% from a maximum salary of RM10,000,” he said.
Therefore, he advised employers to take advantage of the program’s incentives by offering more vacancies for job seekers to fill so that the country’s unemployment rate can be reduced. -Called
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