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Igor Matovič, chair of the OLaNO ("Ordinary People and Independent Figures") movement in Slovakia. (2020)
Slovak Government program declaration says it counts on improving the position of Romani people
22.4.2020 10:40 full story
Czech Labor Minister tells ROMEA TV the crucial priority is to prevent mass unemployment because of COVID-19
9.4.2020 7:55 full story
Czech town hires Romani lifeguards, swimmers respond positively - especially Romanes speakers
5.7.2019 8:47 full story
Czech Agriculture Ministry advises hiring Ukrainian labor despite domestic Romani labor offer for bark beetle work
17.5.2019 7:44 full story
Romani entrepreneurs push for unemployed Roma, not foreigners, to be hired for Czech bark beetle eradication
16.6.2018 8:46 The Association of Romani Entrepreneurs and Guilds (Asociace romských podnikatelů a spolků) has offered to provide 1 000 laborers who have long been registered with the Czech Labor Office for work in forests to combat bark beetle, sending an open letter making the offer to Czech Environment Minister Richard Brabec (ANO) and Czech Agriculture Minister Jiří Milek (for ANO). Czech firms are complaining that they do not have enough laborers for forestry work and that they are understaffed by thousands. full storyCzech Labor Inspection discovers highest numbers of discriminatory want ads in four years
13.4.2018 12:48 News server iRozhlas.cz reports that despite very low unemployment levels, the State Office of Labor Inspection in the Czech Republic has reported a record-high number of discriminatory want ads in which employers a priori exclude either foreign nationals or Romani people from applying. The number of such ads was the highest it has been since 2014. full story
Martin Bajger, candidate for the Czech lower house: If just one Romani MP is seated, that would be success
19.10.2017 7:56 News server Romea.cz is publishing interviews with each Romani candidate competing for a seat this year in the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic. This interview is with the entrepreneur Martin Bajger, who is running on the Green Party candidate list in 25th place in Ústí nad Labem. full story
Czech journalist reports on her experiences working minimum wage jobs, book and documentary film to follow
7.9.2017 9:12 Czech journalist Saša Uhlová has gone undercover to work in the laundry room of a hospital, in a poultry processing plant, as a cashier in a supermarket chain, in a factory producing electric razors, and in a waste sorting plant. She recorded her experiences using a hidden camera and kept a journal of her time on the job. full story
Czech Television: Successful Romani families aid the community
15.6.2017 11:47 A Czech Government report on the state of the Romani minority last year has found that half of the Romani people in the Czech Republic are educated, fully integrated into society, and middle class. Now public broadcaster Czech Television has visited two such families living in the Ústecký Region. full story
Czech Government approves start of bill on social enterprises
17.5.2017 7:46 On 15 May the Czech Government approved a document outlining its intention to draft a bill on social enterprises which should establish clear rules for such firms, theadvantages they would enjoy, and the terms of state support for them. Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka (Czech Social Democratic Party - ČSSD) announced the news on Twitter. full story
videoCzech Republic: New Human Rights Minister Chvojka officially takes office
2.12.2016 18:47 The Czech Government has two new members: Czech President Miloš Zeman has appointed Jan Chvojka to the post of Human Rights Minister and Miloslav Ludvík to the post of Health Minister. They have replaced outgoing cabinet members Jiří Dienstbier and Svatopluk Němeček respectively. full story
Czech regional elections. Romani candidate for the Greens/Pirates, Karel Karika: No more socially excluded localities
7.10.2016 13:18 On Friday, 7 October and Saturday, 8 October, citizens of the Czech Republic will vote for regional councilors and in some regions also for the one-third of the Czech Senate whose electoral terms are expiring. Political parties have also sent several candidates to the regional elections who are of Romani nationality. full story
Czech regional elections: Roma Democratic Party says job opportunities needed
6.10.2016 11:36 On Friday, 7 October and Saturday, 8 October, citizens of the Czech Republic will vote for regional councilors and in some regions also for the one-third of the Czech Senate whose electoral terms are expiring. Political parties have also sent several candidates to the regional elections who are of Romani nationality. full story
Czech research shows appropriate jobs often inaccessible to the unemployed
24.7.2015 23:04 An oft-repeated prejudice in the Czech Republic is that those who receive welfare don't want to work. Just-published research, however, refutes this thesis and finds that many welfare recipients also work in various temporary jobs or without employment contracts, cobbling together an income from a large number of insecure sources. full story
Interview with Czech manager who doesn't hire Roma as housekeepers
16.4.2015 17:12 News server Romea.cz has obtained a recording in which Anna Pižlová, manager of the Clinea firm, refuses to invite a Romani woman to interview for a housekeeping position. On the recording, the manager explains that her clients would not want the woman because of her nationality. full story
Slovak President: The Romani issue is one of society's most pressing problems
12.4.2015 2:14 The President of the Slovak Republic has issued the following press release: full story
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