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Sustainability report 2019-2020 Mexico | 24
b. LGBT Inclusion+
"Thanks to the participation of everyone in the Firm,
our LGBT+ inclusion program has become stronger over
time, learning and sharing best practices with other
organizations, updating our policies and challenging
ourselves every day to be more diverse and inclusive
fills me with satisfaction and pride".
Lorena Gaitán,
Corporate Social Responsibility Manager of the Firm
At Baker McKenzie Mexico We Are Not Neutral. It is clear to us
that diversity strengthens us as an organization. In this way, we
openly declare our respect and support for the LGBT+ community.
Consequently, we promote a culture of respect by creating
inclusive workspaces for all our talent.
Policies
To guide the actions we implement, we have global policies that
reaffirm our position of inclusion and respect for the LGBT+
community; to this end, we are particularly concerned with
avoiding discriminatory behavior towards anyone because of
their sexual orientation or gender identity/expression.
One of the changes we made during the period covered by this
report was to strengthen our conviction of inclusiveness through
a new family policy. Now, it also considers families that carry out
some process of adoption, without leaving aside the benefits
related to the arrangements that our collaborators have for paid
leaves due to parenthood.
Baker Pride + Allies
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Pride+Allies
Internally, during this time, we launched
the first business resource group for
members of the LGBT+ community and allies. Currently, we have
more than 50 members in the
five offices, who work to encourage activities that promote
spaces for reflection and awareness of the respective topic.
Awareness Activities
Raising our collaborators' awareness on LGBT+ inclusion is
relevant part of our position. In line with this, we organized
different activities to commemorate the dates that have
represented the LGBT+ movement on a global level.
• Webinars and Training Sessions
On Pride Month, we held a webinar with Cecilia De la Vega
to talk about LGBT+ inclusion in the workplace, the general
concepts related to it and the importance of the role of allies.
Additionally, we participated in the activities that the Firm
carried out on a regional level. These activities included
webinars, roundtable sessions, panels, and documentary
screenings. The content, in all cases, aimed to raise our
talent's awareness about what we are doing in terms of
inclusion and the challenges this poses for us.
Commemorative Dates
We have developed activities during Spirit Day, for which we
invite collaborators to wear the color purple on their clothing as a
sign of solidarity with LGBT+ youth, who are recurrent targets of
harassment and violence due to their sexual orientation.
We also organized dynamics during the International Day
against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT),
with the purpose of positively reinforcing such concepts
through reflection.
#Spirit Day
#Spirit Day
18 de octubre 2018
#Spirit Day
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