There were around 841,900 people without jobs at the end of October, down by 9,300 from a month earlier, Deputy Labour and Social Policy Minister Stanisław Szwed told reporters on Thursday.
The state-run Central Statistical Office (GUS) reported last month that Poland’s unemployment rate dropped to 5.1 percent in September, from 5.2 percent in August.
Poland's Labour and Social Policy Minister Bożena Borys-Szopa said last month that the 5.1 percent jobless figure for September marked the lowest unemployment rate in the country in almost three decades.
The European Union's Eurostat statistics agency, which uses a different methodology, reported this month that the Polish jobless rate was a modest 3.3 percent in September, the third-lowest in the 28-nation bloc.
(gs/pk)
Source: IAR