A striking feature in this research is that lesbian women score lowest on the scale of well being at work. The FNV is in the midst of a campaign to improve the working environment. Part of this campaign is improving the culture and climate at the work place and fighting mobbing and bullying. Diversity helps building good teams. Respect is a basis for individual input and commitment.
Social support is the environment everybody needs in order to be productive and contribute.
In the unions, in society at large and certainly at the workplace. A campaign for diversity and managing diversity would benefit both workers and management. Codes of conduct are a good instrument to support that. But we still have to work on the commitment on the side of the central employers' organisations to get there. We call on the employers' organisations to develop together with us guidelines and a model code of conduct that can be used in all workplaces.