Kiska Supported Campaign Fighting Prejudices Against Employing Roma

20. marca 2019 20:24
Bratislava, March 20 (TASR) - Prejudices against the employment of Roma are terrible, said President Andrej Kiska after receiving representatives of the Acceptable campaign organised by civic association Dive maky (Wild Poppies), adding that he's glad that there is an initiative that tries to remove them. The association is currently calling upon employers to join the list of companies that employ without prejudice. "We have such a special phenomenon in Slovakia, that on the one hand we hear from employers that there is no more workforce, while on the other there are a huge number of unemployed, especially in the Roma group," Kiska said after the meeting, pointing to the results of an experiment in which jobseekers with a Roma-sounding name or a darker colour of skin had only half the chance of being contacted by an employer. The experiment is the basic idea of the campaign conducted by Dive maky. "The campaign aimed to point out the paradox that we say to the Roma to get education and to try to find a job, and when they do so, our prejudices prevent us from employing and even contacting them," said the author of the campaign Robert Slovak. According to Barbora Kohutikova from the civic association Dive maky, employers who register in the list on the prijatelni.sk (acceptable.sk) website will be publicly awarded. am/mcs/mf
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