Indicator history

Without formal data on ethnic structure of employees in public administration and based on observations it is possible to conclude that  Roma community is most deprivileged in access to employment in public administration, mostly because of lack of adequate education and insufficient public policy measures to support education and recruitment of Roma in that field. There are very few members of Roma community employed in public administration: a female police officer has been recruited from Roma community several years ago and as such represents a good practice, but it is still an exception rather than a rule; there are Roma assistants to teachers  temporarily employed in  dozens of elementary schools, but it is not clear if the possition will be kept on permanent basis in the system of education. There  are few members of Roma community employed on permanent or temporary basis at national public service broadcasting (employees of PSB are considered pubic servants and their status is regulated through respective regulations).

According to some documents there is significant number of members of ethnic minorities in the army.

Sources:

"Romska skupnost" (Roma community), Office for National Minoritie, http://www.uvn.gov.si/si/manjsine/romska_skupnost/. Date of access: 22.1.2012.

"Demografska, etnična in migracijska dinamika  in njen vpliv na Slovensko vojsko" (Demographic, ethnic and migration dynamics in Slovenia and its impact on the Slovenian Army), ed. Janja Žitnik Serafin, Institute for Slovenian emigration and migration, Ljubljana, 2009, http://isim.zrc-sazu.si/eknjiga/Zitnik-ur.pdf. Date of access: 22.1.2012.

"Pojavi etnične diskriminacije v javni upravi, vojski in policiji v Republiki Sloveniji" (Cases of ethnic discrimination in public administration, army and police in Slovenia), in: Perspektive slovenske integracijske politike (Prospects for the Slovenian integration policy), eds. Miran Komac and Mojca Medvešek, Institute for Ethnic Studies, Ljubljana, 2006, http://www.inv.si/DocDir/projekti/percepcija_slo_int_pol_Bela_krajina_koncni_2.pdf. Date of access: 22.1.2012.