More than 2 million employees work in ailing companies

As many as 960,000 Polish workers are employed by companies in a very bad financial condition and 1.2 million employees work for companies in a poor financial situation. More than 2 million workers are threatened by lay-offs, according to a report published by Bisnode Polska, a company specializing in providing business information. The research, which included 630,000 Polish companies, reveals that 20.05 percent of them are in a strong financial condition, 44.08 percent remain in a good shape, 25.57 percent are in a poor financial condition and the remaining 10.09 percent in very bad. The highest number of workers threatened by lay-offs are employed in the following sectors: manufacturing, retail, transport and construction.