Seventeen percent of workers in Serbia are unregistered, and 55,000 people worked full time in 2011 without any compensation, according to what was said at the start of a campaign for dignity at work, entitled Black on White, held in Belgrade on Tuesday.

The campaign is part of a project called Dignity at Work for Everyone and its goal is to promote worker rights.

Even though it faces many challenges, it is important for Serbia to secure new jobs while adhering to the EU standards on worker rights, Susan Fritz, mission director of USAID Serbia, who fund the project, stated.

USAID and 6 non-governmental organizations from Serbia have joined forces in this campaign to promote dignity at work, she stressed.

"We wish to focus on dignity at work, which involves earning enough to live on and providing social insurance," Secretary General of the Centre for Democracy Foundation Natasa Vuckovic remarked.

Representatives of non-governmental organizations that work on the project stated that around 17 percent of workers in Serbia were unregistered, had no social insurance, and that last year, 55,000 worked full time without being paid for it.