Kontaktirajte nas Pogoji uporabe Pogosta vprašanja

Description of the situation

One of the basic problems of the Roma community in Poland is the high level of unemployment. This is a problem mainly due to the lack of education and qualifications of the Roma minority. The problems of the Roma community are inadequate education or a total lack of it, low qualifications, reluctance and the lack of motivation to work and the lack of employers who would willingly employ the Roma.

 

One of the reasons for the unemployment is also the passivity of the Roma in search of work and a low level of trust in the state institutions. Another reason for the low rate of employment is the lack of modern services and instruments supporting the employment of people with low education and different cultural values. In addition, the patriarchal model of the Roma family makes it difficult for women to gain education and enter the labour market.

 

The Roma for the most part maintain the social assistance benefits. But its real value  - to freeze the level of income thresholds and high inflation - is decreasing in the recent years. Among the main profit income sources are commerce (cars, textiles, antiques), a few companies (including playing music), work on projects implemented under the aid programmes (as Roma education assistants, community centre workers, coordinators of tasks, etc.) and seasonal work outside the country.

 

In the context of these barriers, and with regard to the situation of the Roma, the previously performed forms of counteracting unemployment are insufficient. Despite a wide range of activities implemented mainly within the available assistance programmes, involving the organization of training courses to upgrade their skills and professional skills, individual support to find work, the organization of work placements, taking action by socio-professional assistants or consultants, we continue to see that so far professional activation mechanisms used have had a very limited effect.

 

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