The platform decided to start a judicial dispute in electoral mode over the election spot for Law and Justice, in which the statement is about 15 percent. unemployment during PO-PSL rule.
This correction was made; the average unemployment rate in Poland in February 2013 was 14.4 percent, although there is no doubt that this indicator was definitely higher than 15 percent in most voivodeships (as many as 11) and most poviats (more than 230) during this period (for example, in the Warmińsko-Mazurskie Voivodeship it was as much as 22.5%, and in the Szydłowiecki poviat in the Mazowieckie Voivodeship it was over 34%).
However, this complaint to the court and its decision resulted in an avalanche of information, especially on social media, showing that the labor market situation was very difficult during the PO’s rule.
Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki summed up the situation most accurately when he wrote that “under Tusk there was such unemployment that Tusk himself went to work abroad”, and Nigiel farage.
Favorable two-year PiS reign in 2005-2007
The analysis of labor market data from the period of the PO-PSL government shows that the favorable labor market situation left behind by the Law and Justice government was reversed, despite the fact that the government only had two years in power. 2005-2007.
Well, in this short period of time, the government has managed to reduce unemployment from about 18 percent. abandoned by the SLD government at the end of 2015 to around 11 percent. at the end of 2007 (no less than 7 percentage points) and this good trend continued under the administration of PO-PSL during ten months of 2008 (in October 2008 the unemployment rate was only 8.8%).
But from then on, despite the increase in GDP in separate years, it only grew to the aforementioned 14.4 percent. in February 2013 (i.e. up by almost 6 percentage points).
Lowest unemployment in the whole EU
When the PO left power, unemployment was about 11 percent. and the rule of law alone led to a drop in it to 5 percent, and according to the EU methodology to 2.7 percent, the lowest in the entire European Union.
This happened despite the massive crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic and Russian aggression against Ukraine, which resulted in a serious rise in the prices of energy resources and, consequently, in a marked economic slowdown.
As a result of this war, at least about 0.5 million Ukrainian citizens were in the Polish labor market, yet unemployment did not increase, and for the first time since 1989, more than 17 million workers are employed in Poland.
Unwanted contracts and traveling abroad
But the dramatically difficult situation in the labor market during the PO-PSL rule is reflected not only in the data presented above, but also in the conditions under which Poles had to go to work.
Very often they were junk contracts, that is, they did not even secure the basic rights of employees, and the hourly rates offered were in the range of PLN 3-5 and employees took this job, because even for such jobs there are several people in the queue were waiting.
The consequence of such a difficult labor market situation was the massive emigration of people, especially young people, to work abroad. As a result, at the height of this departure, almost 2.5 million Poles were working in the countries of the European Union.
Improving the situation on the labor market
Only the takeover of power by the Law and Justice Party and a significant acceleration of economic growth led to an improvement in the labor market situation, enabling the process of transformation of the labor market situation from the employer market to the employee market.
The introduction of the statutory hourly rate and the regular annual high increases in the minimum wage (already twice as high as in 2015) significantly improved the situation of workers on the labor market (the average wage in the economy also increased by almost two times) and unemployment was consistently reduced to, as I said, the lowest in the entire European Union (according to the LFS methodology).
For example, during the trial, the PO proved to all of Poland that unemployment grew during her reign, reaching a whopping 14.4 percent at its peak in February 2013, and a side effect of this was Donald Tusk relinquishing the premiership. in Poland and left in 2014 to work in Brussels.
Source: wPolityce