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Clifford Chance set to launch gay network

safe work environment I understand what you guys are saying, however, what does setting up a corporate "LGBT network" and counting gay/lesbian folks within a corporation have to do with people being open about themselves in informal situations? A few quotes from the text: "Gay rights advocacy group Stonewall called the firm's LGBT policy into question." "Employers can then engage directly with the needs of staff". "JPMorgan now asks prospective panel firms for diversity statistics and companies such as Transport for London are following suit." If gay folks are unable to talk about themselves openly then either the workforce are homophobic (then: don't recruit homophobes) or the gay employees' concerns are imaginary. And if there ever has been a case of corporate discrimination based on sexual preferences, like a promotion being put to a halt, that's not going to be solved by official exposure of gay/lesbian people either. "LGBT policies" and employers "engaging with the needs of the staff" are nonsense, what is that? My suggestion: just don't discriminate.

9-Nov-2007

10:33 am