More municipality offices sign the Charter

Częstochowa - as the third municipal office in Poland, after Słupsk and Poznań - joined the Diversity Charter. On August 10, 2017 at the City Hall, the declaration of counteracting discrimination in the workplace was officially signed by the President of the city - Krzysztof Matyjaszczyk. The City Office also represented Employee Ombudsman Agata Wierny and Anna Mielczarek from the Department of European Funds and Development, who invited representatives and representatives of the Częstochowa business community to participate in the event. The General Director of the Responsible Business Forum - Marzena Strzelczak also participated in the meeting.

We are the third local government in Poland signing this document. In our Office we have amploees od different ages or with disabilities. I think that our own diversity help us responding better to the needs of residents. Signing the Charter will facilitate more effective promotion of principles and values ​​that we implement in the Office and in the city – also among the entrepreneurs cooperating with us - said Krzysztof Matyjaszczyk - President of Czestochowa

Gdańsk

President Paweł Adamowicz, on behalf of the City of Gdańsk, signed the Diversity Charter, thus making a declaration of care for a friendly and open work culture in the municipality office. Gdańsk is the fourth city in Poland to sign the Charter.

Poland has always been a country of many nations and cultures. After the Second World War, a large part of our heritage disappeared from the Polish landscape. Over the years, we have forgotten the diversity that built our identity. Now, by signing the Diversity Charter, we want to remind that. We need to rebuild the sensitivity to another human being. It is in Gdańsk that we show that the essence of humanity is diversity and freedom. And it is our duty to create equal living conditions for every human being. So that no one would feel excluded from living in any of its aspects - said the president of Gdańsk Paweł Adamowicz.

Wrocław

On November 13, president of Wroclaw Rafał Dutkiewicz and the City Secretary Włodzimierz Patalas signed the Diversity Charter, thereby entering the municipality office of Wrocław into a group of almost 200 signatories of the Charter in Poland. It is already the 6th local government among organizations that declare openness and want to counteract discrimination in the workplace. The meeting was also attended by the General Director of the Responsible Business Forum, Marzena Strzelczak.

Diversity management and the need of creating open and free form discrimination workplaces- issues that we have been discussing today on the occasion of signing the Diversity Charter - are crucial and it goes without saying - said the President of Wrocław Rafał Dutkiewicz. 

However, sometimes we do need to talk about it and pay attention to it, which is why I want to say that our principles are consistent with everything that we are going to write in a moment [Read the content of the Diversity Charter]. I hope that the office functions like this. I am glad that as a 197 entity in Poland, we join the signatories of the Charter, we are happy to sign it - stressed President Dutkiewicz.