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Employment, wages up in Polish firms y/y in April: stats office

20.05.2021 10:05
Employment in Polish companies rose by 0.9 percent in April on average in year-on-year terms, the country’s Central Statistical Office (GUS) said on Thursday.
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Meanwhile, average wages in Poland's corporate sector in April increased by 9.9 percent compared with the same month a year earlier, the state-run statistics agency reported.

The average gross Polish monthly wage last month was PLN 5,805.72 (around EUR 1,285, USD 1,570), according to the statistical office.

The figures are for companies with more than nine employees.

Polish Deputy Prime Minister Jarosław Gowin has said that the government has spent tens of billions to save more than 6.9 million jobs since the coronavirus crisis hit the country in March last year.

Support for businesses throughout the country has exceeded PLN 200 billion (EUR 44 billion, USD 52 billion), he told reporters earlier this year.

Poland’s labour ministry has estimated that the country's unemployment rate was 6.3 percent in April, down from 6.4 percent in March.

(gs/pk)

Source: PAP