The portal money.pl reported that job cuts are taking place in more and more regions of Poland. The reasons include rising production costs linked to the EU’s Green Deal and the fact that companies are relocating parts of their operations abroad. The reductions are hitting the automotive, furniture, construction, and industrial sectors — and experts warn that this is a clear signal of the deteriorating condition of Polish industry.
In total, several thousand jobs are being eliminated. Concrete examples were cited. In the capital of Lesser Poland (Małopolska), several large plants have announced mass layoffs. The company Aptiv may let go up to 140 people (the second round of cuts this year — 200 workers were laid off in the winter). At Aldi Nord in Kraków, 96 employees lost their jobs due to restructuring in the financial department of its technology center, which opened in 2024. Meanwhile, Heineken’s shared services center, according to local media, may cut between 500 and 700 jobs.
Blachotrapez in Nowy Targ plans to lay off around 70 people, though workers fear the number could reach 200. In Silesia, the ZF Group has announced 110 layoffs at its Electronics Engineering Center in Częstochowa, with cuts also affecting Katowice, Warsaw, and Łódź. Fujitsu will lay off a total of 834 positions, mainly in Łódź and Katowice. In Lower Silesia, FAP “Pafal” in Świdnica — part of the Apator Group — will be shut down, resulting in about 20 job losses.
Morawiecki: “This Is Economic Sabotage”
The former prime minister addressed the mass layoffs in a post on the platform X.
“Tusk’s government is using a ‘settlement circus’ to distract from Poland’s worsening economic situation and is trampling on the last few years of hard work by ordinary Poles. Just look at the data — it doesn’t lie, unlike the government’s propaganda of success.
Statistics from the Central Statistical Office (GUS) for 2024 sound the alarm: hundreds of small and medium-sized businesses have fallen to their knees, eliminating thousands of jobs for ordinary citizens.
This is not ‘optimization’ — it’s a massacre of entrepreneurship under the boot of the current coalition!”
Morawiecki added that data from the Ministry of Family, Labor and Social Policy (MRPiPS) confirms this trend:
“The number of unemployed has risen for the fifth consecutive month — an annual increase of 103,000, the highest in five years.”
Company revenues in Poland dropped by 144 billion PLN compared with 2023, while net profits plunged by nearly 40 billion PLN. What’s particularly worrying, he said, is that revenues declined faster (by 2.3%) than business costs (by 1.7%).
“Profitability is collapsing because the current government is creating a real hell for business: higher taxes, bureaucratic chaos, and green fanaticism that kills competitiveness. Other indicators are also alarming:
- the overall cost ratio in 2024 reached 95.7% (up from 95.1% in 2023);
- gross profit margin dropped to 4.3% (from 4.9%),
- and net profit margin fell to 3.4% (from 4.0%),”
– warned Morawiecki.
According to the former prime minister, this means that
“over 20% of all operating companies made no profit in 2024 — this explains the wave of group layoffs and the hole in the state budget. Failing businesses mean less tax revenue for the government, which keeps spending more and more, even as money runs out everywhere – especially in healthcare!”
Morawiecki also drew attention to the condition of state-owned companies:
“They brag about Orlen’s rising valuation, while Jastrzębska Spółka Węglowa is sinking — profitability in the mining sector fell from +5.0% in 2023 to -10.1% in 2024; in transport from 4.5% to 2.8%; and in manufacturing from 4.8% to 3.6%.”
“This isn’t bad luck — it’s sabotage of the economy by a government that prefers implementing EU directives to creating Polish jobs.
Poland — wake up! Must an economic catastrophe occur before the government realizes it should focus on the economy and national security instead of revenge?”
Morawiecki concluded.