ECRI has been informed that this data shows higher levels of unemployment for national/ethnic minorities. Further, according to the Migrant Integration Policy Index (MIPEX) Latvia ranks 29th out of 31 participating States in immigrants’ access to the labour market. In this connection, although only a limited number of officialcomplaints have been lodged for discrimination in the field of employment, an increase of informal complaints, inter alia to trade unions, has been recorded. ECRI further notes that no training aimed at raising employers’ and trade unions’ awareness of discrimination at work has been carried out. ECRI recommends that the Latvian authorities carry out training aimed at raising employers’ and trade unions’ awareness of racial discrimination at work...Read more
European Commission against Racism and Intolerance: Report on Latvia
Thomas Huddleston
Policy Analyst, Migration Policy Group
Thomas Huddleston is a policy analyst at the Migration Policy Group, a European think-and-do-tank. He coordinates MPG’s research for European cooperation on national integration policies, including the second and third editions of the Migrant Integration Policy Index (MIPEX) (published in February 2011) and the third edition of the European Commission’s Handbook on Integration.
