“Unemployment is rising like an avalanche. In a year, more than 100,000 people have become unemployed. These are real dramas of Polish women and men,” says in the latest video posted on social media Mateusz Morawiecki, former Prime Minister of Poland.
The Central Statistical Office (GUS) published the latest information on the labor market situation in December 2025. The data shows that the registered unemployment rate rose to 5.7 percent, which is 0.1 percentage points higher than in November (5.6 percent).
The increase in the unemployment rate translates into concrete numbers at employment offices. In December 2025, 887,900 people were registered as unemployed, while the previous month it was 873,600, which means an increase of over 14,000 unemployed people in just 30 days. On an annual basis, the number of registered unemployed rose by 101,700 compared with December 2024 (786,200). After the October increase (+101,800 year-on-year), this is the highest rise since March 2021, almost five years ago.
Equally concerning is the number of people newly registering as unemployed – in December there were 93,600 such registrations, slightly more than in November (93,000). These data show that despite small monthly fluctuations, the influx of people seeking work remains steady and at a high level.
Morawiecki: this is a policy of indifference
Mateusz Morawiecki, former head of the Polish government, commented on the latest GUS data.
“When Donald Tusk takes vacations and long weekends, human dramas are happening all over Poland. How is it that unemployment rises precisely when he is in power?” he commented in one of his posts on platform X. In the published video, the Law and Justice (PiS) politician says: “Dear friends, doesn’t this frighten you? Unemployment is rising like an avalanche. In a year, more than 100,000 people have become unemployed. These are real dramas of Polish women and men”.
“And what is the government doing? There is no money in the budget, so they are already cutting hundreds of millions of zlotys for fighting unemployment. Employment offices have up to 80 percent less funding, which means fewer training programs, fewer internships, fewer grants to start a business, and unfortunately, more and more unemployed people,” he adds.
Kiedy Donald Tusk robi sobie ferie i długie weekendy, w całej Polsce dzieją się ludzkie dramaty.
— Mateusz Morawiecki (@MorawieckiM) January 30, 2026
Jak to jest, że bezrobocie rośnie akurat wtedy, kiedy to właśnie on rządzi? pic.twitter.com/zh85jMDMgX
In his view, this is a “policy of indifference”.
“This is a government that leaves people to fend for themselves. But very soon, we will restore a normal Poland, where Poles have dignified work,” he promises.