1.   During the meeting, Mohd Jeffrey had called on the retrenched employees to remain calm and patient as their plight is receiving the full attention of the Labour office.

2.   Trairong said the Labour Ministry would inform business operators with illegal workforces about the deportation scheme and provincial labour offices would also send them letters.

3.   His confirmation came on the same day that the labour office announced especially disappointing jobless figures for October.

4.   However, the labour office partly attributed the fall to seasonal and special factors.

5.   In particular, ways had to be found to guarantee wages and talks were being held with the labour office about the payment of insolvency money.

6.   According to the Labour office, the greatest increase in the number of Asian women employees abroad is the result of legal, rather than illegal, immigration.

7.   And this week the federal labour office warned that high unemployment was showing signs of consolidating and becoming structural.

8.   Deputy Human Resources Minister Kadir Sheikh Fadzir said the figures were culled from claims for compensation filed at the Labour office, Bernama news agency reported.

9.   Employment data for March are due to be officially published on Tuesday by the German federal labour office.

10.   Employment data for March are due to be officially published Tuesday by the German federal labour office.