Retailers Asda and The Co-operative Group were the only retailers featured on LGBT charity Stonewall's Top 100 Employers List in the UK, numbering 25th and 31st, respectively.
Stonewall ranked Lloyds Banking Group as Great Britain's most inclusive employer.
The winning firm’s achievements regarding the LGBT community included a programme in which its staff volunteered over 1,000 hours to the LGBT charities Mermaids, Opening Doors London and the Albert Kennedy Trust and raised over £30,000 in funds over 2016.
To rank the Top 100 employers, Stonewall used data submitted to the Workplace Equality Index, which covers employment policies and practice, training opportunities and engagement with the LBGT community.
The legal, education, government and finance sectors featured most prominently in the list. However, it featured no representatives from the travel, construction, or media sector, and the technology, retail, leisure and arts sectors were underrepresented. Asda was one of Stonewall's 'top-performing' companies.
A recent survey examining attitudes regarding gender in the workplace, in which over 92,000 employees in the UK took part, found that 43% of trans-gender employees worried about clients knowing about their gender identity, 20% about sharing such information with colleagues, and 12.5% about management knowing about their sexual orientation.
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