Unemployment down to 13% in April

The level of unemployment fell to 13 percent in April, from 13.5 percent in March. This is the forth consecutive month of decline, from 14 percent in January. In April, the number of unemployed persons decreased by 100,000.

 

Labor Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz said that such a big drop was last observed in 2010. At the end of April, there were 2.82 million of unemployed persons.

 

The minister said that unemployment could drop below 13 percent at the end of the year and in the summer it could go below 12 percent. Kosiniak-Kamysz said that a lot of new jobs are being created in the construction industry.