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An open, collaborative library of radical HR & operations policies.

Advice on how to create radical alternatives to standard policies.

Find out about opportunities to explore radical HR together.

Stories and learning from the frontline of radical internal policy work.

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.

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94 policies uploaded by groups like yours, including…

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Staff absence planning

A policy for a mid-sized organisation to identify individual and collective responsibilities for staff taking time off, in a way that both enables staff to take time away, and for it to avoid negatively impacting on staff who are still working. Includes link to a template for work handover planning.

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Safeguarding policy & procedure

A policy which aims to create environments that prevent safeguarding issues from arising, and outlines how to respond to incidents if they occur. It applies to: children, adults at risk of harm, staff members, board members, and others.

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Sabbatical policy

A policy about giving staff a mix of paid and unpaid time off to support their lives beyond their role. Lengths of time off, eligibility, notice periods, work re-planning and pay levels are covered.

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Exit checklist

A handy adaptable exit process including items around support & organisational learning as well as practical, legal and technical concerns.

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AI policy

We believe technology should serve people and planet, not exploit them. This policy sets out our approach to the use of AI tools in that context. It identifies risks & opportunities and outlines permitted, limited and not permitted uses.

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Privacy policy

A plain english privacy policy that outlines data collection, uses and protection of data, data rights and retention, cookies and limited non-commercial third party access, and how to complain.

16 guides to help you develop your own policies and processes…

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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.

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Protest & Work

How to support workers taking political action outside of the workplace

Can organisations offer ‘protest leave’ to workers? Meaningful change requires people to challenge injustice beyond the workplace; offering protest leave is one way organisations can support this principle. This guide offers practical information for organisations choosing to offer protest leave.

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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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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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Other Leave

How to write a supportive policy for other kinds of leave that respond to our real life needs

This guide explores different approaches to leave, relevant aspects of law, and alternative kinds of leave to support one another to live better lives.

24 stories from the community, plus tools and updates from the core team…

Blog

Making the “case for space”: The value of peer-to-peer reflection across organisations

Back in 2025, Ort Gallery and RadHR came together for an in-person session with no agenda–just an aim to share, reflect, and support each other with whatever we had on our minds at work. Here’s how it went.

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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.