Stonewall Top 100 Reveals UK’s Most LGBTQ+-Inclusive Employers
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Law firm Clifford Chance tops this year’s list. Arup secures second place, followed by Victim Support, NHS Business Service Authority and Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service.
In fact, many of the companies in this year’s list, including the top two companies Clifford Chance and Arup, are myGwork’s valued clients. Other myGwork partners who have secured a place on the coveted list include HSBC, Unilever, Bank of America, Pearson, Santander UK, RPC LAW, WTW, Reckitt, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Colt Technology Services, Skyscanner, T. Rowe Price, Oliver Wyman, Whitbread, Dentsu, Aegis, Axa and Marsh McLennan.
Stonewall’s Top 100 Employers is the definitive list of workplaces who’ve dedicated themselves to supporting LGBTQ+ inclusion inside and outside the organisation itself. The list is compiled from the Workplace Equality Index, which companies submit entries to.
CLIFFORD CHANCE SCOOPS TOP POSITION
Clifford Chance has repeatedly reached the top 50 of the UK Workplace Equality Index since 2016. This year the international law firm rose to the top of the list thanks to building on its support for LGBTQ+ staff and championing LGBTQ+ equality across the UK. The firm has clear policies that ensure LGBTQ+ staff are protected and supported, as well as expansive healthcare benefits that include transition-related treatments and LGBTQ-inclusive mental health support.
Senior leaders at the firm are also highly engaged with this work, leading on local action plans, taking on personal inclusion-based objectives, and participating in the firm’s ‘reverse mentoring’ scheme to develop their knowledge with the support of more junior LGBTQ+ staff. The firm’s thriving LGBTQ+ employee network group, Arcus, provides confidential support and spaces for LGBTQ+ staff to build community. The network also runs a wide-ranging programme of events to engage staff across the firm with LGBTQ+ issues and advises the firm’s leadership on policies and practices that affect their members. Clifford Chance also champions LGBTQ+ equality beyond their four walls, lending extensive support and pro bono services to LGBTQ+ campaigns, community groups and charities.
ARUP SWOOPS STRAIGHT IN AT NUMBER TWO
Professional services firm Arup secured an impressive second place on the list, in its first year on the list after significantly developing its LGBTQ+ inclusion work.
The firm focused on sustainable development, understands that inclusion is important for its 6,000+ UK staff, and works hard to support them in meeting the needs of their clients, partners and communities they serve.
LGBTQ+ inclusion is embedded throughout the employee lifecycle, from attraction, recruitment and induction, through training and career development. Arup has a well-established allies programme, which encourages all staff to expand their learning and join a community of colleagues who actively promote inclusion across the organisation.
Arup’s active LGBTQ+ network group, Connect Out, provides support and advocacy for LGBTQ+ staff, with a particular focus on supporting their bi, pan, trans and non-binary members, as well as providing support for LGBTQ+ refugees, LGBTQ+ disabled people and the trans and non-binary community.
STONEWALL’S TOP 100 MOST EMPLOYERS
This year’s top 100 Employers doing great work over the past year for all LGBTQ+ people, in order of ranking include:
1. Clifford Chance
2. Arup
3. Victim Support
4. NHS Business Services Authority
5. Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service
6. Jacobs Engineering Group
7. Stockport Homes Group
8. KPMG
9. Linklaters
10. Citi
11. Wickes
12. Swansea University
12. HSBC
14. Fidelity International
15. Tesco Stores Ltd
16. Unilever
17. DLA Piper LLP
18. Kent Fire and Rescue Service
19. Sky UK
20. University of Greenwich
21. Bank of America
22. Zurich Insurance
23. Severn Trent
St Mungo's
24. Leigh Day
25. Solicitors Regulation Authority
25. De Montfort University
27. Aviva
28. Pearson
29. The University of Manchester
30. Santander UK
31. Rolls-Royce
32. Charles Russell Speechlys LLP
32. OC&C Strategy Consultants
34. Cardiff Council
35. Irwin Mitchell
36. Barclays
37. Credit Suisse UK
38. Grant Thornton UK LLP
38. Mills & Reeve
38. Wrexham Glyndwr University
41. RPC LAW
42. Environment Agency
43. WTW
44. University of Plymouth
45. The Scottish Government
46. Leicestershire Police
47. Leicestershire County Council
48. Fujitsu
48. Reckitt
50. Greater Manchester Combined Authority (Greater Manchester Fire & Rescue Service)
50. Oliver Wyman
52. Shearman & Sterling
53. Whitbread PLC
53. Health Education England
55. Touchstone
56. Womble Bond Dickinson
56. Middlesex University
58. Notting Hill Genesis
58. Virgin Money
60. Vodafone
61. Virgin Media O2
62. L'OREAL UK & IRELAND
62. Thoughtworks
64. Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
65. M&S Bank
65. Sheffield Teaching Hospital
67. NHS England
68. Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
68. Leeds City Council
70. Welsh Government
70. dentsu uk
72. Wellcome
73. Enterprise Rent-A-Car
74. BAE Systems
75. The King's Fund
75. Nationwide Building Society
77. Colt Technology Services
79. Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
80. Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
81. Deutsche Bank
81. Mind
83. AXA UK
84. Oxford Brookes University
84. Skyscanner
84. Birmingham City University
87. Marsh
88. Brunel University London
89. Capital One UK
90. T. Rowe Price
90. Oxfordshire County Council
90. Royal College of Psychiatrists
93. University of Derby
93. NHSBT
93. Royal Holloway, University of London
96. TLT LLP
97. Amazon UK
97. City, University of London
97. University of Huddersfield
100. Hargreaves Lansdown
100. Societe Generale
100. Network Rail
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