Tata Steel is one of the world’s biggest corporations. | Photo: Facebook/Tata Steel
One of the world’s biggest steel manufacturers has just launched an initiative to better support its LGBTQ employees.
The Indian company, Tata Steel, launched it s WINGS, an Employee Resource Group for LGBTQ employees.
Tata Steel operates in 26 countries around the world. It was listed in the Fortune 500 as one of the biggest corporations in the world in 2014.
The company said it launched WINGS to improve inclusion and diversity in the workforce, according to a report in Gaylaxy.
‘We are embracing LGBT policy because this policy should have happened many more years… many more months.. many more decades before we all came, and that’s the change which we want to bring,’ Tata Steel’s vice president of Steel (Sales & Marketing), Peeyush Gupta, said at the launch.
‘We cannot remorse on the fact that we have not done it in the past, but we also do not want to repent many months or years later that we did not do it today.
‘As a pioneering company, we have done number of pioneering things in the past, this is one such pioneering thing we can do for the steel industry.’
The company leads the way
Gay sex is illegal in India under Section 377 of the Penal Code. Many LGBTQ people struggle to find employment or have to stay in the closet at work.
Foreign and multinational companies are leading the charge in promoting diversity in India. But Tata Steel’s Suresh Dutt Tripathi, admitted it might be hard to get the message across in rural Indian towns.
