Amid rising unemployment for LGBTQ+ people, myGwork announces digital career fair

Against a background of continuing uncertainty in the job market, myGwork will host #WorkFair on 24 March 2021 – a one-day global career fair introducing LGBTQ+ job seekers to inclusive employers. In both the US and the UK, the economic impact on LGBTQ+ people, LGBTQ+ people of color and Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities is clear. A report from the Movement Advancement Project on the impact of the pandemic on US LGBTQ+ people was stark: compared to cisgendered, heterosexual peers, LGBTQ+ people have suffered worse outcomes, with many losing jobs, income, and access to healthcare. In the UK, a report released in March 2020 – before the first national lockdown and furlough scheme – by the UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies, Carnegie UK Trust, and Operation Black Vote revealed that millennials from BAME backgrounds were "58% more likely to be unemployed than their white counterparts." To help...