Polish unemployment steady at 5.8% in August: labour ministry

Poland’s unemployment rate held steady at 5.8 percent in August, unchanged from July, the country’s labour ministry has estimated.

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There were around 961,800 people without jobs across the nation at the end of August, down by 13,100 from a month earlier, according to the Polish labour ministry.

Officials noted that the figure marked the sixth straight monthly drop in jobless numbers as the economy emerges from the coronavirus crisis.

Sierpień był już szóstym miesiącem z kolei, gdy poziom bezrobocia rejestrowanego w Polsce zmniejszał się. Mieliśmy zarejestrowanych ponad 13 tys. osób bezrobotnych mniej niż w poprzednim miesiącu. To bardzo dobra wiadomość! https://t.co/xCIUnRJSnA

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The state-run Central Statistical Office (GUS) reported last month that the Polish jobless rate dropped to 5.8 percent in July, from 5.9 percent in June.

Meanwhile, the European Union’s Eurostat statistics agency, which uses a different methodology, estimated last week that unemployment in Poland was a modest 3.4 percent in July, one of the lowest rates in the 27-nation bloc.

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Source: IAR, PAP, gov.pl