Growing support for campaign helping to employ Roma people

A total of 120 firms in Slovakia have joined the call to support the employment of people from the Roma minority during the two months since its launch. The firms thus publicly espoused the idea that prejudice and any form of discrimination has no place on the labour market. The campaign called prijatelni.sk (acceptable) is organised by the Dive maky (Wild Poppies} civic association. The association points out, however, that only small progress has been reached in the employment of marginalised Roma communities on the labour market, with the employment rate of Roma standing at one-third in comparison to that of the majority population. Even the OECD's latest analysis established that if the employment and productivity of Roma rose to the level achieved by the majority population, Slovakia's GDP would grow by more than 12 percent by 2060.