Unemployment rate drops again

The registered unemployment rate in Poland declined by 0.2 percentage points in October and amounted to 11.3 percent at the end of the month, according to an estimate published by Poland’s Ministry of Labor and Social Policy on Monday. October is the ninth consecutive month of the rate’s decline. Since the end of January, the number of unemployed persons has dropped by 475,000. Employers submitted 97,000 job offers to labor offices in October, 37 percent more than in October 2013. “There has not been such a good year on the labor market for the past six years,” said Labor Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz.