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Diversity Career Resources - GLBT
How can an organization ensure that its work benefits provide for LGBT employees?
Provide equitable benefits and privileges to all employees, including health benefits (medical, dental and vision), relocation benefits, care-taking and bereavement leave, access to facilities and services, access to employee assistance programs and retirement and survivor benefits.
Identify gay-friendly employers, search for jobs, learn about gay and lesbian employment associations, and research your rights.
How can an organization ensure that its work benefits provide for LGBT employees?
- Ensure your organization’s health insurance plans cover transition-related care for employees who are transgender.
- If your organization has a life insurance benefit, ensure the plan will recognize a registered domestic partner as the default beneficiary.
- Provide the domestic partners, dependents and children (biological, adopted or step) of LGBT individuals and couples the same benefits as the organization grants the spouses, dependents and children of heterosexual individuals and couples.
- Recognize all employee affinity groups equally, including LGBT groups.
- Pay for employee time and fees for attending diversity awareness trainings and conferences.
- Recognize, sponsor and support involvement in LGBT professional organizations, events and pro bono efforts.
[ Source ; California State Bar Association ]