ANNEX A – What is Fair Work?
The Fair Work Framework, designed by the Fair Work Convention, can generate a range of benefits to individuals, organisations and society.
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Effective voice
- Enabling staff to have a voice at all levels
- Openness, transparency, dialogue that genuinely shapes decision making
- Formal and informal structures to support two-way communication
- Trade Union recognition
- Collective bargaining
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Opportunity
- Robust recruitment and selection procedures
- Apprenticeships and other paid training opportunities
- Training and development opportunities for all staff regardless of job role or contract type
- Promotion and progression practices
- Buddying and mentoring
- Engaging with and recruiting diverse and local communities
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Security
- Fair pay (for example, payment of at least the real Living Wage or local living wage rates for workers delivering contracts outside the UK)
- No inappropriate use of zero hours contracts or exploitative working practices
- Collective bargaining arrangements for pay and conditions
- Building stability into contractual arrangements
- Employment security arrangements
- Fair opportunity for pay progression
- Sick pay, maternity pay and pension that is above statutory requirements
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Fulfilment
- Effective skills use
- Autonomy, opportunities to problem solve and make a difference
- Investing in training, learning and skills development and career advancement
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Respect
- Safe working practices
- Respect of behaviours and attitudes
- Policies and practices which are understood and applied that respect health and safety and promote well-being
- Support for mental well-being
- Respect of workers’ personal and family lives
- Opportunities for flexible working to respect caring commitments and work-life balance
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