Unemployment in Czechia rises to 3.5 percent

After four months of decline, unemployment in Czechia rose to 3.5 percent in July, up by 0.1 percentage point month-on-month, according to data released by the Czech Labour Office on Tuesday.

At the end of last month almost 259,000 people in the country were out of work. The number of vacant positions dropped by around 1,000, reaching over 285,600.

The jobless rate in Czechia in July last year was 3.4 percent.