“This is further proof that the labour market appears to be stabilising after a period of lockdown and the resulting restrictions in the economy," Minister Marlena Maląg said on Thursday.
Maląg, minister for labour, family and social policy, has previously said that some 5 million jobs have been saved throughout the country thanks to measures including a massive relief and stimulus package ushered in by the government to shield the economy from the coronavirus.
The state-run Central Statistical Office (GUS) reported last week that the Polish jobless rate stood at 6.1 percent in July, unchanged from June.
Meanwhile, the European Union’s Eurostat statistics agency, which uses a different methodology, estimated this week that unemployment in Poland was a modest 3.2 percent in July, the second-lowest rate in the 27-nation bloc.
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Source: IAR, PAP, TVP
