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Alcatel, Lucent, and Alcatel-Lucent retirees: you can now join us!
It took some time to iron out some technical issues, but we are now able to have our former members (whether retirees or not) "re-join" our Chapters mailing lists!
Meeting HomoSFèRe
Sylvie is President of HomoSFèRe, an NGO which gathers lesbian, gay, bi and trans employees of the SFR group and their friends. SFR is the second biggest telecom service provider in France, and its workforce includes more than 10,000 employees.
Being out at work: it’s also getting better
In the July-August 2011 issue of the Harvard Business Review, the article "For LGBT Workers, Being “Out” Brings Advantages" presents some facts on the status of LGBT in the workplace. With an estimated 7 Million LGBT working in the U.S. private sector, 29 states say it is legal to fire someone for being gay. On the bright side, 85% of Fortune 500 companies have protective policies that address sexual orientation—up from 51% in 2000. Additional analysis from this article is presented by one of the authors on the HBR blog, "The Cost of Closeted Employees".
Video project to support equality for LGBT people
Some of you may have read about the "It gets better" project which was initiated last fall after a number of suicide among young students in the USA. Those suicides were following bullying attitudes towards LGBT and questionning youth.
No Closet?
Firstly, let me explain why I felt I had to make this post. I am not at all a real-TV addict which I usually blame for exposing the worst side of human being. I am not either so eager to share my life with everyone — I take pride in myself for having less than 20 friends on Facebook.
LGBT, tous concernés, tous sensibilisés !
Here is an article published on ALU France website discussing about an event proposed by EQUAL! in the frame of the LGBT awareness month.
Corporate Equality Index: Alcatel-Lucent earns top mark in 2010
Alcatel-Lucent in the United States received the highest score of 100% in the Corporate Equality Index by the Human Rights Campaign on their treatment of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender employees, consumers and investors.
