Depressing and damming report on the employment situation and prospects

The report states that Poland has the worst unemployment ratio among the EU members, that the prospects for young people on the labor market is horrible and too many people work in the agricultural sector. Apart from that, the employment services are very inefficient. Only 51% of people able to work have a steady job. Meanwhile, the average in EU is 64%. Among the Central European countries only Bulgaria has a worse results than Poland. Also, the number of employed women is the lowest in the EU, and amounts to just slightly above 46%. However, Michał Boni (an ex labor minister in the 1990's), one of the experts who wrote the report believes that Poland has achieved many success, mainly the higher education boom and in securing good economic growth. (Rzeczpospolita, pp. A1, A2) A.F.