02 Jul 2021 / 09:30 H.
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KUALA LUMPUR: “Will go through retrenchment, again ... Be strong,” wrote journalist Zulaikha Rahim on her Facebook status, recently.
Her message was short and terse but it spoke volumes of the feeling of gloom that enveloped her.
Up to June 2 this year, she considered herself as a member of the M40 (Middle 40 percent income) group but all that changed in a wink of an eye when her company retrenched her, along with other staff, to save costs.
Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in March last year, this is the second time this 34-year-old mother-of-one is finding herself without a job. The first time was last year when she had to leave the company she worked for as she was not paid her salary for two months.