GUS: unemployment up in December

Poland's unemployment rate stood at 9.8 percent at the end of December, in line with the government’s estimates, the Central Statistical Office (GUS) informed. The rate recorded a 0.2 percentage points increase on a monthly basis, in November 2014, it amounted to 11.4 percent of professionally active Poles. The number of registered unemployed totaled 1.563 million people, compared with 1.825 million a year ago.