The unemployment rate jumped to 6 percent in January. with 5.7 percent a month earlier and 5.4 percent a year earlier – the Central Statistical Office reported on Tuesday. This means that 934.1 thousand people are unemployed. people.
Unemployment has not been this high since September 2021, i.e. for 53 months.
The data are slightly better than those previously published by the Ministry of Family, Labor and Social Policy, which reported 934.7 thousand. people without work. It turned out that there are 600 fewer such people, which does not affect the unemployment rate rounded to one decimal place and is therefore still 6.0 percent.
Job offers are scarce
These data might not be so disturbing – after all, we are still in areas of low unemployment – if it were not for the fact that a clear deterioration is visible in job offers. This means that it is difficult to count on any improvement in statistics.
In January, only 26.3 thousand were reported to employment offices. new offers. For comparison, a year earlier in the same month there were as many as 88.5 thousand of them. The slump in the creation of new offers has been going on since October last year.
At the end of January, there were only 26.8 thousand people waiting for applicants. jobs, i.e. by 27.2 thousand less year to year.
No right to benefits
What is also disturbing is the information that out of 934.1 thousand people who cannot find paid employment, as many as 802.9 thousand is not entitled to benefits. That's about 96 thousand. more year to year.
This means that some people have been unemployed for a long time, so long that they have lost the right to benefits. 347.4 thousand people remain unemployed for over a year. people, i.e. by 41.1 thousand more year to year.
