Ministry of Labour: unemployment rate at 9% by the end of 2016

"The registered unemployment rate will reach 9 percent by the end of 2016," Minister of Family, Labor and Social Policy, Elżbieta Rafalska announced. "Although there are optimistic forecasts that registered unemployment rates may fall below that level. But we do not forget there are some regions where it still amounts to 20 percent. People there get annoyed when we say that the situation is getting better, because they still do not have work," continued Elżbieta Rafalska in an interview for Dziennik Gazeta Prawna. At the beginning of February 2016, the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy reported that the registered unemployment rate amounted to 10.3 percent in January with a growth of 0.5 percent month-on-month.