More than 40% drop in redundancy in Poland

According to Work Service's analysis, based on Regional Labour Offices in Poland, employers submitted around 40 percent fewer employees to collective redundancies in 2015 in comparison to 2014. The major amount of collective redundancies was detected in the manufacturing and finance sectors. In general, 24,553 employees were laid off in 2015, while in 2014 the number of redundancies was equal to 41,893. "Currently, we are dealing with one of the best situations on the labor market for years . Over a 40 percent drop in the number of redundancies is the result of the economic development and accelerating economy. The CSO data shows that almost 75 percent of working age people are professionally active, resulting in record level of employment - 16.3 million people. Therefore, we should speak about a formal rather than a real problem of unemployment in many places in Poland," said Krzysztof Inglot,  Work Service's Press Officer. Most employees were cut back in the Masovian Voivodship - almost 12,000 (more than 20,000 in 2014). Meanwhile, the least collective redundancies were revealed in the Podlaskie Voivodship (96 people), West Pomeranian Voivodship (108), Lubusz (220) and Opole Voivodships (220). In total, there were collective redundancy drops in all voivodships, besides Świętokrzyskie (60 percent increase), Wielkopolska (10 percent increase) and Lublin (6 percent increase).