July 2025 brought a wave of notifications of intended collective layoffs in many regions of Poland. Data provided by provincial labor offices indicates that the total number of people potentially affected by this process is over 4,000. The largest reductions are planned in the Silesian, Masovian, and Greater Poland voivodeships.
According to data from the Ministry of Family, Labor and Social Policy , companies reported collective layoffs affecting 37,300 people throughout last year . In the first half of 2025 alone, these reports covered as many as 80,000 employees, more than twice as many as in all of 2024. We examined the situation in individual Polish regions last month.
The worst situation in Silesia and Mazovia
According to information provided to Bankier.pl by Marcin Biernat, Deputy Director of the Voivodeship Labor Office in Katowice, six companies in Silesia have reported collective layoffs. The layoffs in this region could affect as many as 2,304 people . The affected industries include healthcare, social services, and wholesale and retail trade.
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The second largest voivodeship in terms of the scale of planned layoffs is Mazowsze. Six companies have announced layoffs and will include They have a total of 1,067 employees.
– The layoffs apply to the following industries: telecommunications, IT, tobacco production, and wholesale trade – Hubert Samul from the Masovian Labor Market Observatory told Bankier.pl.
In Greater Poland, problems in the dairy industry and transport
In the Wielkopolska region, notifications were received from seven workplaces, and the scale of layoffs may reach 510 people.
– The largest reductions are planned in the dairy processing sector – 334 people, as well as in agriculture – 119 people and road transport – 32 people – Sławomir Wąsiewski, deputy director of the Provincial Labor Office in Poznań, told Bankier.pl.
In the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, six companies, including four in the industrial sector, have announced plans for collective layoffs. These plans will affect 422 people.
The Provincial Labor Office in Toruń received notifications from four plants operating in the industrial processing sector that plan to lay off 352 employees. and from two companies in the trade and car repair industry, intending to lay off 70 people.
Meanwhile, in the Świętokrzyskie region, only one company from the furniture industry has announced a plan to reduce its workforce, with the layoffs affecting 30 employees.
In the Pomeranian Voivodeship, two companies from the service sector reported to labor offices that they planned to reduce 22 jobs, while in the Łódź Voivodeship, 31 employees were reported to be laid off – 20 in a primary school and 11 in trade.
Peacefully in Podlasie, Lublin and Lower Silesia
Although mass layoffs are occurring , there are no plans for major job cuts in some voivodeships . Kinga Jacewicz, director of the Provincial Labor Office in Szczecin, told Bankier.pl that only five employees of a wholesale company were reported laid off in July.
Only one planned collective layoff was reported in Warmia and Mazury.
– An employer from the trade sector announced the dismissal of three people – Wojciech Krztoń, deputy director of the Voivodeship Labor Office for the Labor Market in Olsztyn, told Bankier.pl.
However, Łukasz Hudziak, deputy director of the Provincial Labor Office in Zielona Góra, told Bankier.pl that only one company in the region reported its intention to conduct mass layoffs last month. Three people will lose their jobs.
There are also regions where no such reports were made, including the Lower Silesian, Podlaskie, and Lublin Voivodeships. No companies there reported any major job cuts in July.
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Collective layoffs reported in July 2025 |
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Voivodeship |
Number of people affected by layoffs |
Number of companies |
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Silesia |
2,304 |
6 |
|
Masovian Voivodeship |
1,067 |
6 |
|
Greater Poland |
510 |
7 |
|
Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship |
422 |
6 |
|
Lodz Voivodeship |
31 |
2 |
|
Świętokrzyskie |
30 |
1 |
|
Pomeranian Voivodeship |
22 |
2 |
|
West Pomeranian Voivodeship |
5 |
1 |
|
Lubusz |
3 |
1 |
|
Warmia-Masuria |
3 |
1 |
|
Lower Silesia |
0 |
0 |
|
Podlaskie |
0 |
0 |
|
Lublin Voivodeship |
0 |
0 |
|
Lesser Poland |
no data |
— |
|
Opole Voivodeship |
no data |
— |
|
Subcarpathia |
no data |
— |
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Source: Bankier.pl based on data from provincial labor offices |
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Job cuts in sectors that were previously immune to the crisis
While official data doesn't yet indicate actual layoffs, the scale of the reports is concerning, especially since they involve both global corporations and local employers . It's also worth noting that while some industries, such as IT and food production, have been relatively immune to crises so far, they are also currently experiencing job cuts. This may signal deepening structural changes in the Polish labor market.
