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Agency Organizes Re-integration of Trans People at Work

Being transgender in the workplace has always come with significant challenges. Whether this is the communication process with your colleagues, arranging leave for medical procedures, or the sheer uniqueness of a person’s transition for the organisation, it can be both daunting and frustrating. Now, however, there is a new agency…

New Horizons Summer Edition is here!

31 July 2020 Workplace Pride members, allies and friends, We are very proud to announce the launch of this year’s edition of our New Horizons magazine! Our goals with this year’s edition in particular have been to stay the course, adapt and keep pushing for sharply relevant content from all sides…

Workplace Pride welcomes Danone into the family

16 July 2020 We are happy to announce that Danone, a leading global food & beverage company built on three businesses: Essential Dairy and Plant-Based Products, Waters and Specialized Nutrition has joined the Workplace Pride Foundation. Amidst all of the adversity thrust upon us all in these anxious times, Danone has…

Online Symposium Recap | Unilever Signs Declaration

1 June 2020 Friday, June 19th was the big day! After re-designing our entire 2020 program due to the global pandemic, overcoming extreme technological challenges, and shifting mid-stream to embrace the growing conversation surrounding the Black Life Matters movement, our 2020 Online Symposium finally hit the airwaves. With over 400…

Workplace Pride appoints new co-chairs to further foster LGBTI-inclusion

PRESS RELEASE Amsterdam, June 22 2020 Amsterdam, June 22 2020 – Workplace Pride – a nonprofit foundation dedicated to improving the lives of LGBTI-people in workplaces worldwide – announced two new co-chairs to its Foundation Board. Michiel Kolman (Senior Vice President at Elsevier) and Bianca Nijhof (Managing Director atNetherlands Water…

Historic Ruling Against LGBTI Workplace Discrimination

16 June 2020 Photography: Susan Walsh/AP Workplace Pride is absolutely delighted with the USA Supreme Court ruling that LGBTI people can no longer be discriminated against in the workplace in the United States. This 6 to 3 ruling is both groundbreaking and historic and will have far-reaching implications around the…

2020 Online Symposium on 19 June 2020

11 June 2020 ACCESS ONLINE SYMPOSIUM HERE REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED You are cordially invited to the Workplace Pride 2020 Online Symposium. With the theme of “Great expectations, Envisioning a new decade of LGBTI Workplace…

“I am a new me” Webinar

10 June 2020 For the eighth episode in our “Keeping Member Connected” live webinar series, the theme was Transgender issues and how they affect people in the workplace and life in general. To speak about the challenges and struggles of being Transgender is something many people are probably…

AkzoNobel signs Declaration of Amsterdam

3 June 2020 Workplace Pride member AkzoNobel, has reaffirmed their commitment to LGBTI inclusion at work by signing the Declaration of Amsterdam. The Declaration is a 10 point action plan, created by the Foundation in 2011, which outlines the responsibilities of employers as well as employees to create work environments…

IDAHOBIT DAY

Keeping the Rainbow flag flying 18 May 2020 Christiaan Rebergen and Mark van Enckevort raise the flag and the Ministry of Finance in The Hague On Friday the 15th of May, the rainbow flag was raised at government locations nationwide (as well as all Dutch Embassies…