Polish unemployment down to 6% in June: labour ministry

Poland’s unemployment rate edged down by 0.1 percentage point to 6 percent in June, the country’s labour ministry has estimated.

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Analysts noted the figure marked the fourth straight monthly drop in joblessness as the economy emerges from the coronavirus crisis.

There were around 994,800 people without jobs across the nation at the end of June, down by 31,900 from a month earlier, according to the Polish labour ministry.

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The state-run Central Statistical Office (GUS) reported last month that the Polish jobless rate dropped to 6.1 percent in May, from 6.3 percent in April.

Meanwhile, the European Union’s Eurostat statistics agency, which uses a different methodology, estimated last week that unemployment in Poland was a modest 3.8 percent in May, one of the lowest rates in the 27-nation bloc.

Polish Deputy Prime Minister Jarosław Gowin has said the government has spent more than PLN 200 billion (EUR 44 billion, USD 52 billion) to save almost 7 million jobs since the coronavirus crisis hit the country in March last year.

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Source: IAR, PAP