Eurostat: Unemployment rate at 7.7% in June

The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in Poland stood at 7.7 percent in June, according to data released by the EU’s statistics office Eurostat. In May, the rate was 7.8 percent, while in June last year, it stood at 9 percent The number of unemployed amounted to 1.328 million, versus 1.347 million in the previous month. As for the entire EU, the unemployment rate amounted to 9.6 percent. An unemployed person is defined by Eurostat, according to the guidelines of the International Labour Organization, as someone aged 15 to 74 without work during the reference week, who is available to start work within the next two weeks and who has actively sought employment at some time during the last four weeks. The unemployment rate is the number of people unemployed as a percentage of the labor force.