Policy Field: Employment
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Employability and Social Inclusion
The City of São Paulo, through its LGBTI Policy Coordination Office, promotes initiatives that combine employability, citizenship, and social inclusion. The “Employability Task Forces” connect LGBTI+ individuals with private sector companies, offering career guidance, training, and referrals to affirmative action job openings. The “Transcidadania Program” guarantees educational training, professional qualification, and comprehensive support for the…
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Annual Queer New Year’s Reception – Fostering Visibility and Connection
The queer employee network QUEER² of the City of Mannheim hosts an annual New Year’s Reception to bring together queer staff members and allies, strengthen the visibility of queer perspectives, and celebrate diversity within the organisation. The event begins with welcome addresses from senior management and staff representatives, highlighting the importance of inclusion, respect, and…
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LGBT+ seminar – An inclusive job market for LGBT+ persons
As part of Copenhagen Pride 2025, the Equality Unit hosted a seminar at the City Hall focusing on LGBT+ inclusion in the labor market. The event was arranged in collaboration with the Employment and Integration Administration and brought together LGBT+ persons, politicians, municipal employees, and NGOs. One of the aims was to create dialogue and…
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LGBT employee network
A last year’s online survey of all city administration employees regarding their experiences of discrimination revealed that a significant number of LGBT+ colleagues like to have a LGBT+ employee network. After a motivating working session on that topic at the RCN annual meeting in 2024 the LGBT+ Coordination Office has established the network. This was…
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Re-certification with the Swiss LGBTI-Label
The City of Bern has once again been re-certified with the Swiss LGBTI label, a quality seal awarded to organizations in Switzerland that promote equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and other queer individuals in the workplace. The recertification of Bern is an important distinction for an open, diverse, and inclusive city administration that…
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Testing based on sexual orientation or gender identity to measure the discriminations faced by candidates seeking apprenticeships
The City of Paris commissioned this innovative study to assess the discriminations faced by candidates when accessing apprenticeships, focusing on two criteria: sexual orientation and gender identity. The research, led by economist Yannick L’Horty, tested 3,000 Parisian recruiters in 2025 using simple requests for information prior to submitting apprenticeship applications. The results were presented on…
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Internal diversity working group – AG Vielfalt
Several offices and departments of the state capital of Wiesbaden formed the city’s internal diversity group (AG Vielfalt). The member offices represent various diversity characteristics through their areas of work: ethnicity, gender, disability, age, etc. The LGBT+ Coordination Office hosts the meetings which take place every 6-8 weeks. On the occasion of the German Diversity…
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LGBTIQ* employees network: Activities throughout the year and truck at Pride
Our LGBTIQ* employees network has grown and now consists of more than 350 colleagues. For the first time we participated with a truck (together with the human resources department) in the Pride parade. We also had a walking group as well as a booth in cooperation with the human resources department and recruitment services next…
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Master class of diversity and inclusion in the workplace for trans people
As part of the strategic axes of work of the Council with different sectors of society in the promotion of a culture of equality, non-discrimination and human rights, and based on the history of complaints received by Copred that indicate that 70% of cases of discrimination are manifested in the workplace, of which 11% were…
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Strengthening the employee network
Members of the LGBTI community often have a hard time in the workplace. Many therefore hesitate to tell others about their sexual orientation or gender identity. This makes networking events for LGBTI employees so important. As an event open to all municipal LGBTI employees was previously lacking, the City of Zurich 2024 organised a panel…