Employers must improve benefits for LGBT staff - Mercer

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While many global organisations have adopted broader diversity and inclusion policies, just over half have tailored these policies to specifically accommodate LGBT employees, according to Mercer's LGBT Benefits around the World Survey

  The research found that there were discrepancies in how health, well-being and family care policies were communicated or offered to LGBT staff. In addition, one-third of organisations do not have a designated program for LGBT employees within their diversity and inclusion policy and 20% of organisations rely on other corporate policies to accommodate LGBT individuals. However, of organisations that have adopted a stand-alone policy for LGBT employees, less than a third (28%) have done so as a global policy for all locations. Even though many organisations have not created a...

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