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Accent and employment
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Riga, Latvia (Baltic Times): A Jelgava woman made judicial history last week as the first Roma in Latvia to win a case of employment discrimination. On May 25, the Jelgava City Court ruled in favor of Sanita Kozlovska, who claimed that a local retail shop had refused to hire her because she was Roma. […] In November 2005, Kozlovska applied for a sales job at a Palso clothing store. Before even being questioned about her qualifications, Kozlovska was denied the position because she “had an accent when speaking Latvian.”
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