The contraction is also the worst in nearly 10 years.
Nevertheless, labour productivity is expected to rebound in 2021, following the steep decline recorded last year.
“The decline is inevitable. It is a global pattern brought by the impact of the pandemic, yet rest assured this is only temporary. MPC believes that the productivity growth is set to climb up this year, the positive projection aligns with the International Monetary Fund’s forecast on Malaysia’s GDP growth in 2021 by 7%,” said MPC director general Datuk Abdul Latif Haji Abu Seman in a statement today.
He also urged the public and private sectors to enhance firms and individual productivity in producing goods and delivering services. Enterprises, on the other hand, are implored to focus on production process efficiency and leverage on digital technology to widen market reach.
Work to start on £6.1m Technology Centre extension at Hopwood Hall Date published: 06 February 2021
(L-R) Tracey Wood, BDM, Julia Heap, principal and chief executive of Hopwood Hall College; Paul Pritchard, centre director on site of the planned extension
Hopwood Hall College is building a £6.1m extension to its Technology Centre in Rochdale as it prepares to launch a range of T-Level qualifications.
T-Levels are high-quality technical alternatives to A-Levels and Hopwood Hall College is one of the first colleges in Greater Manchester to start offering them.
The extension to the Technology Centre at the Middleton Campus will allow the college to offer more T-Levels and higher technical training especially in advanced manufacturing and advanced construction.
The SCORE has benefitted many Ghanaian Enterprises Samuel Onoma Asiedu
By Beyonce Diamond Kpogli
FEB 5, 2021
The National Project Coordinator for the Sustainability Competitive and Responsible Enterprises (SCORE) at the International Labour Organisation Ghana Project Office, Samuel Onoma Asiedu has disclosed that the initiative has helped a lot of enterprises to improve their productivity.
According to him, over 200 enterprises that had subscribed to the SCORE have been able to reduce their cost and increased productivity competitiveness to meet the needs of their clients.
Currently, the SCORE is in its 3rd phase of the program and expected to come to an end in December this year.
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Ms Kate Baaba Hudson, a former acting Editor of The Mirror, has been appointed Editor of the Junior Graphic.
She will lead the editorial team to produce educative, entertaining and vibrant content that will appeal to the youth.
Prior to acting as Editor of The Mirror, she was the Foreign and Supplements Editor of the Daily Graphic.
Ms Hudson had earlier been the Business and Foreign Editor of the Daily Graphic and previously acted as Editor of the Graphic Business.
She had also been the Education Page Editor, as well as the Regional News Page Editor.
KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 2): Private healthcare facilities are ready to accommodate Covid-19 patients, as earlier directed by the government, Private Healthcare Productivity Nexus (PHPN) chairman Datuk Dr Jacob Thomas said.
Dr Jacob said the private hospitals had provided 71 units of ventilators to government hospitals nationwide, when cases in the intensive care unit (ICU) and coronary care unit (CCU) began to show a decline, and this matter was confirmed by Association of Private Hospitals of Malaysia (APHM) president Datuk Dr Kuljit Singh in a statement recently.
He said private healthcare providers had always supported the government in dealing with any healthcare-related situation in the country, more so when there was a surge in daily Covid-19 cases.