Ministry of Labor: unemployment at 10.1% in July

The registered unemployment rate amounted to 10.1 percent in July, a decrease of 0.2 percentage points month-on-month, based on estimates from job centers, the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy announced. The number of registered unemployed amounted to 1. 587 million, compared with 1.622 million in June, thus within a month, 35,000 people found jobs. "Everything indicates that in August, as we expected unemployment rate will stand at one-digit... It is worth fighting for maintaining this result until December, because this is the time when the rate can be fully verifyed on a yearly basis," said Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, the labor minister at a briefing in Kraków. The Central Statistical Office will publish its unemployment data regarding July in late August.