According to preliminary figures released by the Central Bureau of Statistics, the number of employees in September fell by 0.6 percent (or by 9,303) from August.
The number of job-seekers rose by 2.9 percent from August to 279,017 in September.
The unemployment rate increased from 15.7 percent in August to 16.2 percent in September, according to figures which the Bureau received from the Croatian National Employment Office.