In Work Poverty
Received: 31 October 2022
I am writing to request information about what policies your organisation has in place and measures it takes, in relation to the following
* Does your organisation have a formal policy in-place for ensuring your directly employed staff are not in, in-work poverty?
* Does your organisation employ temporary staff?
* If so, what proportion of the workforce are temporary staff?
* Does your organisation have a formal policy or policies in-place to minimize the proportion of the workforce that is made up of temporary staff?
* Does your organisation pay at least the London Living Wage to all its staff ie those both directly employed and temporary?
* Which of the following measures, if any, does your organisation have in-place for all its permanent full-time staff?
* Which of the following measures, if any, does your organisation have in-place for all its permanent part-time staff?
* Which of the following measures, if any, does your organisation have in-place for all its temporary staff?
o Help with travel costs
o Debt support/ advice
o Support for mental health
o Support for physical health
o Subsidized training courses
o Cycle to work schemes
o Trade Union recognition
o Formal procedures for consulting staff about organisational decisions
o Maternity pay above statutory levels
o Paternity leave pay
o Pension contributions for staff above the statutory minimum
o Staff discount scheme
o Savings scheme
o Wages advance facility
o Private medical insurance
* Does your organisation procure, from private suppliers, goods and/ or services required for its internal functioning?
* Does your organisation have procurement policies in-place which ensure that those working for entities supplying goods and/ or services to it, are not in, in-work poverty?
* Does your organisation have procurement policies in-place which require the entities supplying goods and/ or services to it, to pay those workers employed by those suppliers and delivering such goods and/ or services, (at least) the London Living Wage?
* Does your organisation have procurement policies in-place which require the entities supplying goods and/ or services to it, to ensure the workers employed by those suppliers and delivering those goods and/ or services, are employed on permanent full-time contracts?
* Does your organisation require (in contractual terms and conditions) the entities supplying goods and/ or services to it, limit the proportion of workers they have delivering such goods and/ or services that are on temporary contracts?
* Does your organisation have arrangements in place for procuring services for the public, that your institution is under a duty to provide, from private suppliers?
* Does your organisation have procurement policies in-place which aim to ensure that those people working for entities supplying services to the public on a contracted-out basis on your institutions behalf, are not in, in-work poverty?
* Does your organisation require (in contractual terms and conditions) the entities supplying services to the public on a contracted-out basis on your institution's behalf, to pay the workers that they have delivering such services, at least the London Living Wage?
* Does your organisation require (in contractual terms and conditions) the entities supplying services to the public on a contracted-out basis on your institution's behalf, to ensure they employ all those workers that are delivering such services, on permanent full-time contracts?
* Does your organisation require (in contractual terms and conditions) the entities supplying services to the public on a contracted-out basis on your institution's behalf, limit the proportion of workers they have delivering such services that are on temporary contracts?
Outcome / Documents
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