Name of best practice
Slovenská sporiteľna
Entity
(Type of entity implementing the initiative)
Bank
Purpose
Raising awareness on equal treatment among employers, respecting the individual for who they are and sharing positive communication on sexuality and gender orientation
Target
(youth LGBTI+, adult LGBTI+, schools, labour market)
Labour market: Employees, clients, and organisation as a whole
Kind of intervention
Training and/or group workshops
Objectives
Company: image of the company and positive appeal for employers and jobseeker in order to find the best person for the respective job
For the employees: to give a sense of emotional security, sense of belonging, valued corporate culture and self- motivation
Description of the implementation
Slovenská sporiteľňa supports several LGBT cultural activities of NGOs in order to promote diversity of its clients and therefore sending a strong signal to their employees and possible jobseekers on diversity.
Resources needed to implementation
Human resources: Employer resources (several thousand of EUR), employee resources (unspecified)
Results of implementation
Increase in motivation and engagement, furthering of talent pool, new business opportunities and clients, valued corporate culture, greater respect and genuine mutual interest
Facilitators
Support from companies or other employers as sponsorship
Barriers
Civil society organisations would find this sort of programme harder to fund
Reference website of Best Practice Slovenská sporiteľna: www.nadaciapontis.sk/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Odporucania_LGBT_SK_WEB.pdf