Registered unemployment rate in Poland still at 6.1%
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The unemployment rate in November remained at 6.1 percent, i.e. unchanged since June, according to estimates by the Ministry of Development, Labor and Technology (MRPiT).
The preliminary data of the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy shows that the number of unemployed at the end of November 2020 amounted to 1.026 million people and compared to the end of October this year increased by 7,800 people, i.e. by 0.8 percent. In the same period in 2019, the level of registered unemployment increased by 9,100 people, ie by 1.1 percent, the ministry said.
The increase in the number of unemployed registered in employment offices in November is a typical phenomenon for the end of the year and was also observed in previous years, it was also emphasized.
The unemployment rate hasn’t exceeded 10 percent in any voivodship. The lowest registered unemployment rate was recorded in the Wielkopolskie voivodship (3.7 percent), and the highest in Warmińsko-Mazurskie (9.9 percent)
The draft amendment to this year's budget assumed the registered unemployment rate at the level of 8 percent at the end of the year, while government officials recently estimated that this rate at the end of the year will be in the range of 7-8 percent.
(ISBnews)
