Labour Minister: Unemployment at one-digit figure possible

The Minister of Labour and Social Policy, Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, said on Wednesday, that the unemployment rate at end of the year might stand at one-digit number. "It seems that when it comes to the labor market, the worst is behind us and in the following months unemployment should fall", the minister announced. He expects that in 2015, unemployment will drop by some 2 percent. "If the pace of GDP growth upholds and we use wisely PLN 5.5 billion earmarked for the active forms of combating unemployment and for the labor cost subsidies (...) there is a chance that this year's unemployment rate decline will be comparable to the last year's," Kosiniak-Kamysz said.