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Are there examples of good practices and positive initiatives against discrimination/racism at the workplace?

Code:
RED63
Key Area:
Employment
Strand(s):
Discrimination, Equality
13/12/2011 - 21:02
Short Answer

Yes.

Qualitative Info

Initiatives strictly concerning issues of discrimination and racism at work are primarily various types of training on anti-discrimination legislation. In addition, projects are conducted in order to facilitate access to legal work in Poland. This mainly concerns two groups most vulnerable to exclusion from the labour market – the Roma and refugees, which in Poland are mostly Chechens.

 


Source: Ministry of Administration (Program for Roma Community), Warsaw Family Assistance Centre

Groups affected/interested Migrants, Refugees, Asylum seekers
Type (R/D) Anti-migrant/xenophobia
Key socio-economic / Institutional Areas Employment - labour market
External Url http://www.msw.gov.pl/portal/pl/181/Program_na_rzecz_spolecznosci_romskiej_w_Polsce.html, http://www.wcpr.pl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=100&Itemid=106
Situation(s)
Library
31/12/2012 - 01:03
Short Answer

Yes.

Qualitative Info

A positive initiative against discrimination at the workplace is a diversity charter which aims at encouraging companies to implement and develop diversity policies. The document is a written obligation signed by a company which declares to introduce the prohibition on discrimination in the workplace and decides to undertake measures to create and promote diversity. In 2012, the Polish Diversity Charter was launched by the Responsible Business Forum in collaboration with the Office of the Government Plenipotentiary for Equal Treatment and the Office of the Polish Human Rights Defender. So far, more than 40 companies, NGOs and other institutions have already signed it.


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Groups affected/interested Migrants, Refugees, Roma & Travelers, Muslims, Ethnic minorities, Religious minorities, Linguistic minorities, Majority, Asylum seekers, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender, Persons with disability, Africans/black people, National minorities
Type (R/D) Anti-migrant/xenophobia, Anti-semitism, Afrophobia, Arabophobia, Homophobia, On grounds of disability, On grounds of other belief, Anti-roma/ romaphobia, Xenophobia
Key socio-economic / Institutional Areas Employment - labour market
External Url http://www.msw.gov.pl/portal/pl/181/Program_na_rzecz_spolecznosci_romskiej_w_Polsce.html, http://www.wcpr.pl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=100&Itemid=106
Situation(s)
Library