Cosmopolitan ARTICLE (REFEREED) Civil Societies: An Covid-19 Pandemic and Unemployment in Interdisciplinary Journal Malaysia: A Case Study from Sabah Vol. 13, No. 2 Janice L. H. Nga, Wijaya Kamal Ramlan, Shafinaz Naim 2021 Universiti Malaysia Sabah Corresponding author: Janice Nga, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Jalan UMS, 88400 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.
[email protected] DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/ccs.v13.i2.7591 Article History: Received 06/02/2021; Revised 13/05/2021; Accepted 15/06/2021; © 2021 by the author(s). This Published 19/07/2021 is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License (https:// Abstract creativecommons.org/ Covid-19 not only exposed the vulnerability of most industries especially industries that licenses/by/4.0/), allowing relies on air travel and tourism but resulted in the exponential increase of unemployment third parties to copy and redistribute the material in in Malaysia. At the same time, online business or trade and ‘GIG’ economy increased any medium or format and to exponentially. The sudden and unexpected loss of jobs had dire consequences for many remix, transform, and build people. This paper examines how policies enacted during the Covid-19 pandemic affected upon the material for any unemployment in Malaysia by focussing on the situation in Sabah, one of the three purpose, even commercially, remaining partners in the formation of Malaysia. It draws on data from the Family, Women provided the original work is properly cited and states its and Youth Survey conducted online towards the end of 2020, as well as secondary data.