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# Study finds LGBTQ+  more likely to experience workplace harassment
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/study-finds-lgbtq-more-likely-to-experience-workplace-harassment/
- Published: 2021-02-12T17:07:01.000Z
- Updated: 2021-02-12T14:01:09.000Z
- Description: A new report has found LGBTQ+ employees are more likely to feel unsafe and experience harassment in the workplace.
- Author: Rachel Badham
- Tags: Jobs, Mental Health, News, anti-discrimination, LGBTQ, LGBTQ+ equality, Stonewall UK, Trans* Equality, UK

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A new [report](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/files/Images/inclusion-work-perspectives-report%5Ftcm18-90359.pdf) from the **UK Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development** (CIPD) has found LGBTQ+ employees are more likely to feel unsafe and experience harassment in the workplace compared to their straight, cisgender counterparts. The study was conducted as part of CIPD’s *Inclusion at Work: Perspectives on LGBT+ Working Lives* report. After interviewing over 15,000 UK workers, it found 40% of all LGBTQ+ employees had experienced workplace conflict in the past 12 months compared to 10% of non LGBTQ+ people.

A further 55% of trans people reported experiencing workplace conflict over the course of the past year. 16% of LGB+ workers and 18% of trans employees said they felt unsafe at work, compared to 10% of non-LGBTQ+ people. Only 26% of trans employees said their job had a positive impact on their mental health, compared to 38% of cisgender employees. 14% of all LGBTQ+ people said they had been verbally abused in the workplace, with 4% receiving threats of violence.

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**Kate Williams**, associate director of workplaces at LGBTQ+ organisation **Stonewall**, said these figures were *“another upsetting reminder”* of the discrimination and harassment LGBTQ+ people continue to face in the workplace, adding: *“Our own research shows more than a third of LGBT+ staff have hidden their identity at work for fear of discrimination, and one in four trans people aren’t open with anyone at work about being trans.”* They urged employers to create LGBTQ+ friendly workplaces: *“Employers must be clear that they have a zero-tolerance approach to anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination and take steps to ensure that all their lesbian, gay, bi and trans staff are safe, confident and supported at their workplace.”*

CIPD’s report suggests companies should *“strengthen the ways through which LGBTQ+ workers can feel socially connected and included”*, and improve trans-supportive organisational policies and practices. It also urged the UK government to sponsor research on LGBTQ+ equality.

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