As many as 307,000 Ukrainians have found employment thanks to streamlined procedures introduced to help them find work, the Polish Family and Social Policy Ministry said on July 12. Under a law, Ukrainian citizens who arrived in Poland after February 24, the date on which Russia attacked their country, could take up employment without the…
E-commerce giant Amazon is considering setting new distribution centres in Poland, the company’s press officer reports. Konrad Mroz said: “We are constantly considering new potential locations. We take into account many factors when taking decisions on where to develop buildings in order to best serve customers. We are engaged long-term in Poland and are concentrating…
The 2022 annual inflation rate in Poland will come to 14.2%, will fall to 12.3% in 2023 and to 4.1% in 2024, according to a new central bank report. “Inflation will reach its peak in the first quarter of 2023 when it will grow to 18.8%,” the National Bank of Poland (NBP) wrote in the…
The Polish e-commerce market is expected to expand to twice its current size until 2027 and its share in total retail sales is likely to reach 17% in five years’ time, a new report has found. The electronic commerce market will grow by more than PLN 94 billion in value (EUR 19.6 billion) over the…
The number of new job offers in Poland has fallen for the second month in a row, compared to the same period of 2021, a report has revealed. Grant Thornton’s and Element’s report, published on July 11, found 288,000 new job offers published on the 50 biggest recruitment websites in June, down by 8% YoY…
DCT Gdansk, the operator of the largest container terminal complex on the Baltic Sea, has signed a contract for the construction of the third deep-water terminal known as T3. The contract is signed with a consortium of Budimex S.A. and Dredging International NV. The works are to start in September, after the end of the…
Ukrainians in Poland will not take jobs away from Poles and could be a welcome addition to the domestic labour market, the family and social policy minister has said. Marlena Malag said Ukrainians were not a threat to the Polish labour market and could actually help stabilise the economy. She noted that around 300,000 Ukrainians,…