Queere People in the Workplace Continue to Be Under Pressure

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The Equal Treatment Attorney's Office finds difficulties for queer persons in the job. Transpersons in particular would often be terminated or dismissed before or during their transition.

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If one talks about the extent to which sexual orientation is relevant in the workplace at all, the argument often comes: "Isn't this a private matter?" But: "Heterosexual people never worry about whether they can tell about their private life, their family, their wife or husband. They implicitly out every day," says Astrid Weinwurm-Wilhelm, President of the Queer Business Women, an organization that, together with the Austrian Gay Professionals,…

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++ ARCHIVBILD ++ Only a quarter of queer people are out in the workplace