European law already prohibits workplace discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation. In practice, only a small minority of people who experience discrimination ever report it, largely because they do not believe reporting will change anything. Closing the gap between rights on paper and rights in practice is the core of our advocacy work.

We pursue this on several fronts. We call for a European Directive on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, setting common minimum standards for Member States and clear obligations for employers, scaled by size and sector. We press for protections to be explicitly extended to gender identity, gender expression and sex characteristics. And we push for sanctions that are effective, proportionate and genuinely dissuasive.

We also work on emerging risks, particularly algorithmic bias in recruitment and workforce management, where new technology can reproduce old discrimination at scale unless safeguards are built in from the start.