Today the GMB, NASUWT, UNISON and Unite trade unions are encouraging schools and colleges to sign up to a new scheme that recognises employers who treat their staff well.
The unions say that although many employers treat their staff with dignity and engage with constructively unions, there are still too many that do not.
The Valued Worker Scheme highlights schools and colleges that treat their staff well and encourages improvements at those that currently do not.
The scheme has six guiding principles to ensure staff are treated with dignity at work:
1. Provide a safe, secure and enjoyable working environment
2. Ensure the wellbeing and dignity at work of all employees
3. Provide relevant training and development opportunities
4. Negotiate pay and conditions that guarantee the Foundation Living Wage and cover outsourced workers
5. Work with staff and unions to agree formal work policies
6. Ensure work policies and practices are evidence-based.
Valued Worker Scheme recognises and promotes good employers in education
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