Problems of the Polish labour market against the backgrounds of the EU countries after 2004

The situation in the labour market in the contemporary world is the subject of continual surveys and analyses. Particular attention in those surveys is focused on unemployment continuing over long-time that occurs despite governments of the majority of countries undertaking continual efforts aiming at liquidating or at least limiting it. The main goal of the paper is to present the current problems of the labour market in Poland and other European Union countries that developed under the influence of the global economic crisis. An attempt at presenting the current situation and selected characteristics of the labour market in Poland developed under the influence of the conditions existing at the turn of 2008-2009 was the special objective of the paper