Campaign group Campaign group Stonewall has named MI5 Britain’s most advanced and inclusive employer when it comes to ensuring the nurturing and development of its lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees, according to a workplace equality index. The placing of the domestic intelligence agency at the top of the list of the Stonewall Top 100 Employers completes a remarkable shift in culture: its first efforts to recruit gay staff and encourage those employees already in post to be open about their sexuality did not occur until 2008. It was ranked 25 in the Stonewall rankings in 2013 and seventh last year. Stonewall’s report on the state of LGBT employment is based on interviews with more than 200 people who work for or have worked for MI5, including senior officers, managers, managers from other agencies and civil
Campaign group Stonewall has named MI5 Britain’s most advanced and inclusive employer when it comes to ensuring the nurturing and development of its lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees, according to a workplace equality index. The placing of the domestic intelligence agency at the top of the list of the Stonewall Top 100 Employers completes a remarkable shift in culture: its first efforts to recruit gay staff and encourage those employees already in post to be open about their sexuality did not occur until 2008. It was ranked 25 in the Stonewall rankings in 2013 and seventh last year. Stonewall’s report on the state of LGBT employment is based on interviews with more than 200 people who work for or have worked for MI5, including senior officers, managers, managers from other agencies and civil