On June 28 of each year, the International LGBT+ Pride Day is commemorated, an occasion that is propitious to remember the active role of employer companies as key actors in issues of inclusion and diversity.
Human rights treaties and international conventions of the International Labour Organization refer to non-discrimination in employment and occupation.
In addition, at the domestic level, norms of various hierarchy reinforce the prohibition of discrimination and specifically Law No. 17,817 declares the fight against racism, xenophobia and all other forms of discrimination, including discrimination based on “sexual orientation and identity”, to be of national interest.
More recently, Law No. 19,684 recognizes that everyone has the right to the free development of his personality in accordance with his or her own gender identity, regardless of his or her biological, genetic, anatomical, morphological, hormonal, assignment or other sex. This right includes the right to be identified in a way that fully recognizes one’s gender identity and the consonance between this identity and the name and sex indicated in the person’s identification documents.
