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Article

23 Feb 2007

Author:
European Roma Rights Centre

The Glass Box: Exclusion of Roma From Employment

[E]xplicit, open and unconcealed racial discrimination against Roma is a fact in hiring procedures in [Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia],...[a new report published by European Roma Rights Centre says]...A stunning 64% of all Roma survey believe that they have personally suffered discrimination on the labour market. [49% reported]...that they had been explicitly told by prospective employers that the company at issue did not hire Roma...public labour offices charged with assisting the unemployed in finding work in the main magnified discriminatory hiring policies by undertaking no actions whatsoever to challenge these.