Unemployment at 10.8% in May - GUS

Poland's unemployment rate stood at 10.8 percent at the end of May compared with 11.2 percent a month before, the Central Statistical Office (GUS) informed. In May 2014, the unemployment amounted to 13.5 percent. The number of the registered unemployed totaled 1.70 million people and was lower by 80,000 than at the end of April. Earlier in June, the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy estimated unemployment at 10.8 percent.