GUS: Unemployment at 9.7% in September

Poland's unemployment rate stood at 9.7 percent at the end of September, compared with 9.9 percent a month before, the Central Statistical Office (GUS) informed. In September 2014, the rate amounted to 11.5 percent of professionally active Poles. The number of registered unemployed totaled 1.539 million people. At the end of September, there were 97,000 job offers in job offices, thus 900 more than a month before. Earlier in September, the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy estimated unemployment to be 9.9 percent in September. GUS also revised its results for August, saying that the unemployment rate stood at 9.9 percent, and not 10 percent as it had earlier said.