Unemployment in May at 6.1% - Rafalska

The unemployment rate in May was recorded at 6.1 percent, dropping by 0.2 percentage points from April, Minister of Family, Labor and Politics Elżbieta Rafalska said. This is in line with the expectations of economists. On a yearly basis, unemployment in May dropped by 1.2 percentage points. "I think that in June there will be less than one million registered as unemployed," Rafalska added. The number of unemployed in May amounted to slightly more than 1 million and compared to April decreased by 39,000 people.