On Saturday several hundred teachers staged a protest over low pay outside the Education Ministry building and on several nearby locations.
Polish public sector employees on Saturday demonstrated against low wages in front of the Family and Labour Ministry and in several other places around Warsaw.
Poland's minimum wage will go up by 7.5 percent in 2022, the family and social policy minister told PAP after Tuesday's cabinet sitting.
Polish President Andrzej Duda has been preparing a regulation that will hike the wages of undersecretaries of state and, indirectly, of MPs and senators by 60 percent, Duda's aide has confirmed.
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said that the latest employment data is evidence of the good health of the Polish labour market.
Polish wages are gradually getting closer to the EU's average gross pay, but it will still take 18 more years for Poland to reach the medium EU level, an accountancy firm has reported.
Poland's average corporate gross wage rose by 7.7 percent year on year to PLN 5,331.47 (EUR 1,169.90) in the first quarter of 2020, the Central Statistical Office (GUS) announced on Tuesday.
Poland's labour productivity in industry increased by 2.1 percent in 2019, the Central Statistical Office (GUS) said on Wednesday.
Polish Development Fund (PFR) President Pawel Borys wrote in the daily Puls Biznesu on Friday that "Poland's economic growth will likely slow down to 3-3.5 percent in 2020."
With a result of 7.2 percent, Poland came after Romania (3.5 percent), Luxemburg and Italy (5 percent) and Belgium (6 percent).
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