Polish unemployment flat at 5.8% in October: gov't

Poland's unemployment rate held steady at 5.8 percent in October, unchanged from September, the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy has said.

The Warsaw headquarters of the Polish Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy.

Photo: Marcin Dławichowski/Polish Radio

There were around 906,500 people without jobs across the nation at the end of last month, down by around 500 from a month earlier, according to the government.

The state-run Statistics Poland agency (GUS) reported last month that the Polish jobless rate had remained flat at 5.8 percent in September, stable compared with August.

Meanwhile, the European Union's Eurostat statistics agency, which uses a different methodology, estimated this month that unemployment in Poland had stood at 3.4 percent in September, marking one of the lowest rates in the 27-nation bloc.

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Source: PAP, money.pl