Polish unemployment up to 5.7% in December: stats office

Unemployment in Poland inched up to 5.7 percent in December, from 5.6 percent in November, the country's statistics office reported on Tuesday.

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The figure was in line with an earlier estimate by the labour ministry.

There were around 887,900 people without jobs across the nation at the end of December, up from 873,600 a month earlier, according to the state-run Statistics Poland (GUS) agency.

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The statistics office reported last week that employment in Polish companies dropped by 0.7 percent in December on average in year-on-year terms.

According to the European Union's Eurostat statistics agency, which uses a different methodology, unemployment in Poland had stood at 3.2 percent in November, marking one of the lowest rates in the 27-nation bloc

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Source: IAR, PAP