Poland's unemployment rate in December 2023 was 2.7 percent, lower than in November of the previous year, according to Eurostat. Our country is among the top EU countries with the lowest unemployment, surpassing only Malta with a rate of 2.4 percent.

The Minister for Family, Labour and Social Policy, Agnieszka Dziemianowicz-Bąk, together with the ministry's leadership, took part in a conference on the occasion of the 105th anniversary of Public Employment Services in Poland, organised at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw.

On Tuesday, a ceremony was held at the Presidential Palace to appoint government representatives to the Social Dialogue Council. Among others, the Minister for Family, Labour and Social Policy Agnieszka Dziemianowicz-Bąk, who was appointed as Chair, and Deputy Minister Sebastian Gajewski received the appointment.

On February 1 this year, the call for applications for the new benefit period under the Family 800+ programme will start, which will last until June 1 this year. Applications can only be submitted electronically.

On Monday, the Minister for Family, Labour and Social Policy, Agnieszka Dziemianowicz-Bąk, visited the "Senior+" Senior Support Centre in Bielany, Warsaw, at the invitation of the mayor of the Bielany district, Grzegorz Pietruczuk. It was an opportunity to express wishes on the occasion of Grandmother's and Grandfather's Day, as well as to learn more about the activities of the facility.

On January 22 this year, the next round of negotiations for a draft agreement between Poland and Japan in the field of social security was held. The Polish side was represented by Sebastian Gajewski, Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy, and the Japanese side by, among others, Mizuno Mitsuaki, Treaty Negotiator, European Policy Division at the European Affairs Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan.

The Minister for Family, Labour and Social Policy, Agnieszka Dziemianowicz-Bąk, met with the management of the Central Institute for Labour Protection - National Research Institute. The talks focused on the Institute's key health and safety activities and projects.

The Minister of Family, Labour and Social Policy Agnieszka Dziemianowicz-Bąk and the Deputy Ministers Aleksandra Gajewska and Sebastian Gajewski met with representatives of the All-Poland Alliance "Together for Preterm Births" (Ogólnopolskie Porozumienie „Razem dla Wcześniaków”). The talks concerned the issue of maternity leave for mothers of prematurely born children.

According to the European Statistical Office, the unemployment rate in Poland in November last year was 2.8 per cent. We stay in the lead, taking third place in this respect, after the Czech Republic and Malta.

The Family 800+ programme has been launched. The benefit has been given to almost 7 million children. However, there are signals about the use of the payment of this benefit for fraudulent practices.