Sustainable Procurement Tools

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.

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Fulfilment

  • Effective skills use
  • Autonomy, opportunities to problem solve and make a difference
  • Investing in training, learning and skills development and career advancement

• 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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