How to create an LGBT-inclusive workplace

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Employers should create an inclusive workplace for all employees, whatever their sexual orientation or gender identity, writes Jo Stubbs

Attitudes towards lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in the workplace and wider society have changed in recent years and employees protected against discrimination at work and in the provision of goods, services and facilities. However, a 2018 report[i] by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights charity, Stonewall, found that more than a third of LGBT staff (35%) have hidden the fact they are LGBT at work for fear of discrimination. Another report from the TUC[ii] found that 39% of LGBT workers had been discriminated against or harassed by a colleague, 29% by a...

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