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With the Covid-19 pandemic, mental health awareness and screening are now more important than ever.

Companies receiving financial aid must be sincere and refrain from retrenching their workers.

To this day the government has yet to take proactive measures to save the airline sector, says A Sivanesan

Earlier, market traders say workers can earn an average RM2,000 a month, more than many fresh graduate salaries.

CORONAVIRUS | This comes after a new cluster comprising 24 cases was detected after a cleaning company brought all 150 workers for screening.

CORONAVIRUS | It does not seem to be willing to discuss with stakeholders, says its executive director Shamsudin Bardan.

The industry employs some one million workers of which only 450,000 are legal.

The 398 employers have applied to carry out retrenchment and wage cut exercises involving 15,597 workers in the MCO period.

This is a sharp increase when compared to the same period last year.

This is on the weekly status of applications submitted by employers via video recording.

CORONAVIRUS | One point is that while the SME stimulus package focuses on securing jobs and supporting smaller businesses, among others, there’s little for the working class.