PETALING JAYA: Malaysia may face a difficult situation of a shrinking labour force as it transits to an ageing society, according to the Statistics Department. This is also made worse with the decline in the national fertility rate which may also lead to lower growth in productivity, slowdown in economic growth and decline in tax revenues for the government. The government has made efforts to encourage women to give birth to more children as well as to assist them to re-enter the workforce to ad