GUS: 160,000 new vacancies on Polish market in Q2

There were 159,358 new vacancies in Poland in Q2 2016, compared to 154,381 in the corresponding period last year, the Polish Central Statistical Office (GUS) reported on Friday. The figure is 3.2 percent higher than in Q2 2015 and 17 percent lower in comparison with the first quarter of this year, when the number of new jobs stood at 192,050. The number of liquidated vacancies was down 16.8 percent compared to Q1 2016 and 3.5 percent less than in Q2 last year. In 2015, as many as 601,000 new jobs were created.