RadHR is a space where groups and organisations invested in building a fairer and more equitable society can come together to share the nuts and bolts—the policies, processes, practices and stories—of how we organise ourselves based on our values.
We are a free, open, and collaborative resource built by people like you: community groups, mutual aid organisations, cooperatives, activist groups and voluntary sector organisations interested in finding ways of working together that help us look after each other and challenge the power structures we find in the wider world.
93 policies uploaded by groups like yours, including…
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Payment & salary
This policy outlines our wish to be an equitable employer by addressing how we can support team members to bring their whole selves in and calculating wages in a caring way.
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Worker rights and wellbeing
A consolidation of policies to support workers’ rights and wellbeing, for a large membership-led activist organisation/union. It includes: Sickness policy, Parental Leave, Carers and compassionate leave, Time off in lieu and overwork, Additional leave, Trade union recognition, Staff access to counselling or other support, Annual leave, Pension contribution, Staff absence planning, and Parent and carer subsidy.
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Team dynamics & tension shifting meeting
A meeting template and policy description for a small workers’ cooperative to improve communication, surface and address tensions or conflicts that exist amongst the group. It’s about making space for the kinds of conversations around group needs and dynamics that are easily side-lined.
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Pay policy
A socially-just pay policy, including adjustments for: time worked; dependents; no recourse to public funds; experience of marginalisation; city living; and disability. It also includes adjustments for freelance pay; a process for implementation; an emergency pay system; and an emergency fund for workers.
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Flat structure overview
The structure of a flat management system, including core groups (for internal work), delivery roles (for programme work), meeting cycles and related support systems.
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Travel policy
A framework for traveling for a collective covering 1) which expenses are reimbursed, for who, and how; and 2) how to count working days when traveling. It provides guidelines and suggestions regarding how to think about travelling in an activist context.
16 guides to help you develop your own policies and processes…
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Workplace Racism
Racism at Work: A community legal toolkit for navigating workplace race discrimination in England & Wales
What do we do when we experience racism at work? This toolkit is for anyone who has experienced race discrimination in the workplace. It is written for people – employees, workers and individuals in work trying to make sense of their experiences and how the law might apply.
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Pay
How to write a fairer, more equitable pay policy
From flat pay structures to needs based pay systems – how do we live our progressive values, meet everyone’s needs and avoid replicating the systemic inequalities of the corporate world? This guide explores the tricky topic of pay.
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Holiday
How to design a supportive holiday policy that balances individual with collective needs
We all need breaks from work to rest and recharge, but how do we design a holiday system with flexibility and accountability? This guide covers what you need to know about holiday policies.
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Disciplinary
How to have a legally-compliant ‘disciplinary’ policy that doesn’t shame, blame or punish
How can progressive employers meet the legal requirements of a disciplinary policy, without embedding punitive values? This guide covers how ‘disciplinary’ situations can be treated as opportunities for learning and collective improvement.
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Sickness
How to write a compassionate, supportive, solidarity-based sickness policy
What happens if someone goes on long-term sickness absence or is frequently absent? This guide shares practical suggestions to help you develop a compassionate and supportive sickness policy guided by disability justice thinking.
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Legal Structures
Legal Structuring for Social Justice: A Community Legal Toolkit
How do we pick the right legal structure when we’re creating an organisation to address racial or social justice? This toolkit provides accessible, informative, and free advice to leaders, activists and changemakers within community and grassroots groups to help answer this question.
23 stories from the community, plus tools and updates from the core team…
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Making Policies Radical? How we do collective policymaking
Members of the Common Knowledge coop reflect on the practicalities and challenges of developing policies as a small team
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What does it mean to advocate for internal policy transformation across power differences?
Tina Ajuonuma from The Better Org reflects on how power shapes our organisations and shares practical ways to advocate for internal policy transformation across power differences.
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Socially-just pay and anti-oppression work in practice
Reflections from our second RadHR Soapbox event: what does socially-just pay actually mean?
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Getting Started on RadHR
RadHR.org has gradually built-up a lot of different radical internal policy content. If you’re new to the site, or newer to collective policy making, this blog will guide you through some of the key resources we’ve been collecting here over the years.
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Safety is a collective responsibility—and we all have a duty of care
How a new wellbeing cooperative in Oxford is embedding safety in their policies and practices.
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New blog series: Holding the contradictions of radical HR
Three years in, the RadHR Core Team is reflecting on the tensions and contradictions of ‘doing radical HR’ and we want to hear from you!