Poland's unemployment rate remained unchanged month on month in July 2022 at 4.9 percent, the family and labour minister has said.
The growth of the average pension in Poland has been higher than the annual average inflation in the past seven years, according to Marlena Maląg, the family and labour minister.
The situation on Poland's labour market is better than a year ago, said Marlena Malag, the labour minister, as she quoted the latest unemployment data from Eurostat, the EU's statistics agency.
The labour minister has said that the million foreigners now working in Poland were filling labour shortages and do not take jobs away from Poles.
Ukrainians in Poland will not take jobs away from Poles and could be a welcome addition to the domestic labour market, the family and social policy minister told PAP on Friday.
The Polish government has decided to pay out PLN 11.4 billion (EUR 2.45 billion) in an additional allowance for old-age pensioners to cushion the impact of high inflation.
Around 100,000 Ukrainian citizens have found work in Poland since the start of the war, the labour minister said on Thursday.
The unemployment rate in Poland edged down by 0.1 percentage points to 5.4 percent in March despite an inflow of Ukrainian refugees who also seek jobs in the country, the family and social policy minister has said.
Poland will do what lies in its powers to enable employment to Ukrainian war refugees, a government official said on Friday.
Polish firms have already employed over 21,000 Ukrainians following the opening of Poland's labour market to refugees, the family and social policy minister has said.
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