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Article

23 Feb 2007

Author:
European Roma Rights Centre

[PDF] full report: "The Glass Box: Exclusion of Roma from Employment" [see in particular chapter 2.2, pgs. 26-28, "Employers"]

Research based on interviews with 402 working-age Romani individuals [and with 43 employers]...[shows that] many companies in the five countries surveyed have a total exclusion policy regarding employment of Roma...[The researchers found it difficult to arrange interviews with some employers]...it proved impossible to conclude a meeting with the representative...of Tesco [in Czech Republic and Slovakia]...In Hungary, the two large private enterprises interviewed...were the fast food giants McDonalds and Burger King. Both claim to have equal opportunity in employment policies...but neither has a process in place to monitor the application of their equality policy. Nonetheless, both were able to give the precise number of Romani people they employ; 4 in McDonalds and 6 in Burger King.