Unemployed priest offered requalification as butcher

A Czech Orthodox priest who lost his job has been offered the chance to re-train as a butcher, the daily Mladá fronta Dnes reported on Thursday. 38-year-old Pavel Polhoš, an ethnic Roma who grew up in a south Bohemian orphanage, lost his job in a small community in Moravia due to an influx of Orthodox clerics from Russia who are in high demand by the Czech Republic’s growing Russian community. When he applied for a job a local unemployment office, he was offered requalification as a butcher; the unemployed priest told the daily he was considering the offer, but would most likely turn it down.

Author: Jan Richter