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- Unemployment in Czechia fell from 3.9 percent in February to 3.7 percent last month, according to data released by the Czech Office of Labour on Wednesday. Around 273,500 people were out of work in March, 9,000 fewer than the previous month.
- Food bank warehouses are almost empty ahead of the spring round of nationwide food collections, said Ales Slavicek, head of the Czech Federation of Food Banks. He said that food banks were receiving daily requests for food, and that the current economic situation is also affecting the middle class.
- People are heading back to the office, but the pre-COVID era won’t return, according to a survey by Savills. The occupancy rate of offices in Prague has risen by 16% since June 2020, reaching 54%, but still far from the pre-pandemic level of 70%. Many companies are adopting a hybrid work model.
- Czech high school students from the Fridays for Future movement will hold another climate strike on Friday, April 21. They demand explicit government action against the extension of coal mining in Bílina. The strike will start at Malostranské náměstí in Prague at 3:03 pm.
- The Czech Ministry of Finance is set to close 77 of the country’s 201 tax offices from July this year. Some 56 of the branches set for closure are already working in a limited mode.
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