Treasury minister in jobs figure slip-up

Labor has blasted Assistant Treasurer Stuart Robert for over-stating the federal government's job creation pledge.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Tuesday promised the government would create a further 1.25 million part-time and full-time jobs over the next five years.

An extra 1.239 million jobs have been created since the coalition came to power in 2013, 55 per cent of which were full-time.

Asked whether the new 1.25 million target represented full-time jobs, Mr Robert told Sky News: "Full-time jobs, as you've seen with the target of one million which has been reached and exceeded, that's been 1.2 million full-time jobs."

When asked again whether the target represented full-time jobs, Mr Robert said: "Well, we'll wait and see what the economy throws up, but we are exceptionally confident that we'll exceed the current target of what we'd set."

Shadow treasurer Chris Bowen said the coalition's jobs pledge had "imploded" within hours of it being launched.

He said Australia still had 1.1 million people who were under-employed or unemployed.