All Characteristics
Resources to support employers in all characteristics of good employment.
Acas Resources
Acas is an independent, publicly-funded organisation that provides up-to-date information, independent advice, high quality training and works with employers and employees to solve problems and improve performance.
As of a partner of the GM Good Employment Charter, Acas has provided a document outlining their resources available to employers including online guidance, open access training, in-company training, and in-depth advisory work across the seven characteristics of good employment.
CIPD Resources
CIPD is the professional body for experts in people at work, championing better work and working lives by setting professional standards for HR and people development, as well as driving positive change in the world of work.
Access resources from CIPD, including research and insights, guidance and fact sheets, as well as podcasts and other useful tools to help you understand and meet the seven good employment characteristics set out in the Charter for Greater Manchester.
Flexible Work
Resources for extending flexible work.
Good Employment Charter and Timewise: A Line Managers Guide
In partnership with Timewise, an award-winning social business and the UK’s leading experts on flexible working.
We explore how employers can redesign workplaces for a post-covid world.
Good Employment Charter: Making Flexible Work the Default Report
This report contains the outcomes of a Good Employment Charter Consultation Event held in Nov, to consider the BEIS consultation document: Making Flexible Working the Default. Delivery was in partnership with Acas and Ernst & Young.
CIPD: Hybrid Working Practical Guidance
CIPD is the professional body for experts in people at work, championing better work and working lives by setting professional standards for HR and people development, as well as driving positive change in the world of work.
This paper contains details information about hybrid working, including the implementation and further resources for your organisation.
GMCVO Caring, Living, Working Toolkit
Greater Manchester Centre for Voluntary Organisations (GMCVO) is a voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) sector support and development organisation, covering the Greater Manchester city region.
Their Caring, Living, Working toolkit contains guides on how to recruit and retain employees requiring flexible working arrangements. Employers and returners are involved in the development of the toolkit, to ensure it contains appropriate and helpful advice to help work towards the good employment characteristics.
TfGM Business Portal
Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) is the public body responsible for co-ordinating transport services throughout Greater Manchester.
To help businesses to encourage and enable sustainable travel choices as part of a safe, inclusive and resilient recovery for all, TfGM has launched a business portal with useful information on funding, support and resources available.
Real Living Wage
Resources for supporting fair pay.
Living Wage Foundation Resources
The Living Wage Foundation are an organisation which campaign for employers to pay a Living Wage and offer accreditation to employers that pay the Real Living Wage.
This resource page offers guidance, resources and information regarding the Real Living Wage, and information about the businesses who are already accredited.
CIPD: Tackling In-Work Poverty
CIPD is the professional body for experts in people at work, championing better work and working lives by setting professional standards for HR and people development, as well as driving positive change in the world of work.
Their 'Tackling In-Work Poverty' page has been created in collaboration with the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, to raise awareness of in-work poverty and encourage employers to help loosen poverty’s grip.
Engagement and Voice
Resources for utilising employee engagement and voice.
Recruitment
Resources for developing excellent recruitment practices.
GM Hidden Talent Employer Toolkit
GM Hidden Talent is a youth employment programme built on learning from GM Talent Match, it is a cross-sector partnership led by GMCVO.
This toolkit provides employers with easy to implement recruitment ideas that will help them to adapt their recruitment practices to get the most out of young people.
Robert Walters Research Paper
Robert Walters is a specialist professional recruitment consultancy, working with businesses of all sizes as a trusted recruitment partner.
This research paper, based on a survey of over 450 employers, examines new tools and technology that can help businesses reach new sources of talent, explores strategies to develop a company culture that embraces diversity, and addresses the hurdles faced when creating a collaborative, diverse workforce.
People Management
Resources for improving people management and progression.
Good Employment Charter: Soft Skills in Hard Times Paper
The Greater Manchester Good Employment Charter, in partnership with CIPD and Acas, have developed a guide. It discusses the importance, implementation and effect of positive people management skills.
This guide invites employers to explore short and longer-term strategies to enhance the people management skills within their organisation. It also contains several key relevant resources, which will help guide these plans even further.
Good Employment Charter: Soft Skills in Hard Times Roundtable Paper
The Greater Manchester Good Employment Charter, in partnership with CIPD and Acas, held a virtual roundtable on essential People Management skills.
This Roundtable brought together a range of Greater Manchester employers. Discussions explored the management challenges the pandemic has presented and that lie ahead as the economy recovers. Sharing their experiences, the conversation focussed on the five key behavioural traits identified in the guide, that all managers need to both engage their employees in productive work and support their health and wellbeing.
The Growth Company Organisational Improvement Resource
The Growth Company Organisational Improvement is a social enterprise business, passionate about enabling growth and prosperity for individuals and businesses.
This document outlines the personalised services they offer to help organisations provide well-being and resilience programmes. These services include consultancy support, one-to-one mentoring and workshops to build better employee support frameworks, which align with the good employment characteristics.
Skills for Growth - SME Support
Skills for Growth – SME Support is a fully funded, tailored service delivered through one-to-one consultation and impartial advice, designed to help up-skill your employees and improve business productivity.
This website covers the support available for SME's and individuals, and relevant contact links.
Remploy Disability Guide
Remploy is a leading provider of specialist employment and skills support for disabled people and those with health conditions.
This document provides practical advice for employers in supporting disabled people and those with long term health conditions in the workplace.
Health & Wellbeing
Resources for fostering employee health and wellbeing.
The Good Employment Charter Mental Health Toolkit
Partnered with the Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership, The Greater Manchester Good Employment Charter is working to promote how to take care of health in the workplace.
The Mental Health Toolkit for Employers includes information and key approaches employers can take to address Mental Health and Wellbeing in the workplace. This resource is applicable to SMEs and larger firms.
Domestic Abuse During COVID-19 Employer Pack
The government has put together this campaign and employer pack to guide organisations on how to support their employees who may be experiencing domestic abuse during this time. The pack signposts to guidance for employees and support services available, as well as a host of resources from the Employers' Initiative on Domestic Abuse.
GM Health Hub Guidance
The Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership and the Greater Manchester Combined Authority have developed the GM Health Hub, full of free health and wellbeing resources to ensure people across Greater Manchester enjoy happier, healthier lives.
The GM Health Hub contains guidance and signposts to support on a range of topics, including smoking, drinking, nutrition, physical activity and mental health.
GreaterSport Active Workplace Toolkit
GreaterSport is a charity that is changing lives through physical activity and sport to help make Greater Manchester the most active region in England.
The Active Workplace Toolkit is a free, one stop shop to help you get your workplace moving more. With information ranging from explaining the business case for physically active employees, ways to embed activity within the working day and success stories from other organisations across Greater Manchester.
Mind Resources for Businesses
Mind is a mental health charity which provides advice and support for anyone experiencing a mental health problem. They also campaign to improve services, raise awareness and promote understanding.
This resource page outlines the various free resources they offer to help organisations develop open and supportive workplaces. This includes a mental health at work commitment guide, guide to wellness action plans, and advice on how to support staff that are experiencing mental health problems.
Remploy Disability Guide
Remploy is a leading provider of specialist employment and skills support for disabled people and those with health conditions.
This document provides practical advice for employers in supporting disabled people and those with long term health conditions in the workplace.
The Growth Company Organisational Improvement Resource
The Growth Company Organisational Improvement is a social enterprise business, passionate about enabling growth and prosperity for individuals and businesses.
This document outlines the personalised services they offer to help organisations provide well-being and resilience programmes. These services include consultancy support, one-to-one mentoring and workshops to build better employee support frameworks, which align with the good employment characteristics.
Time to Change: Activities for Your Workplace
Time to Change was a social movement to change the way people think and act about mental health problems. The campaign started in 2007 and closed at the end of March 2021.
Challenge misconceptions, start conversations and change attitudes around mental health with these materials for your workplace.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Resources for supporting equality, diversity and inclusion in the workplace.
Good Employment Charter: Racism in the Workplace Roundtable Paper
The Greater Manchester Good Employment Charter recognises that good employment is founded on workplace cultures that are fair and equitable to all. Racism has no place in our society and the importance of speaking out against racism in the workplace is critical.
Sharing our participants experiences, the discussion provides advice on how employers can adjust their approach, and begin their journey to providing an inclusive environment.
Acas: Improving Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in Your Workplace
Acas is an independent, publicly-funded organisation that provides up-to-date information, independent advice, high quality training and works with employers and employees to solve problems and improve performance.
Acas have developed key guidance on improving equality, diversity and inclusion in the workplace including policy templates, fair recruitment advice and diversity monitoring forms.
CIPD: Diversity and Inclusion
CIPD is the professional body for experts in people at work, championing better work and working lives by setting professional standards for HR and people development, as well as driving positive change in the world of work.
Their 'Diversity and Inclusion' page includes resources on a number of workplace diversity and inclusion issues such as disability, gender, race, religion and sexual orientation. These resources include guides, tools, courses and podcasts.
CIPD: Ethnicity Pay Reporting
The CIPD has hosted a series of roundtable discussions in London, Manchester, Leicester, Edinburgh, and Cardiff to gather member views on the potential challenges, approaches, and processes that ethnicity pay reporting could bring.
As well as this, the CIPD created a survey for HR professionals and consultants which received more than 240 responses.
Centre for Ageing Better: Becoming an Age Friendly Employer Guide
The Centre for Ageing Better is a charity, working to create a society where everyone enjoys later life. They create change in policy and practice, informed by evidence, and work with partners across England to improve employment, housing, health and communities.
Their 'Becoming an Age Friendly Employer' guide is a comprehensive description of how to be more inclusive of an ageing workforce, with five key actions that employers can take to improve the way they recruit, support and retain older workers.
The Clear Company: Racism in the Workplace
The Clear Company is a diversity consultancy that helps organisations ensure inclusive recruitment and employment. They aim to make sure that diversity and inclusion are accessible to all types and size of business, whatever stage they are at in their inclusion journey.
Access their 'Taking action against Racism in the workplace' resources, which includes an Anti Racism toolkit, Race in the workplace audit, and training programmes which are relevant across the characteristics of Good Employment.
Quality Standards
Quality standards that will demonstrate good practice in this characteristic are
Quality standards that will demonstrate good practice in this characteristic are
The simplest and best way for an employer to demonstrate meeting this characteristic is to become an accredited Living Wage Employer with the Living Wage Foundation.
Quality standards that will demonstrate good practice in this characteristic is Investors in People.
Quality standards that will demonstrate good practice in this characteristic are
Quality standards that will demonstrate good practice in this characteristic are
- Investors in People
- Valuing People Management (British Standard BS76000)
- Timewise, Best Companies (The Sunday Times)
- Trusted Charity (previously PQASSO)
- Workplace Wellbeing Charter
- Disability Confident Scheme
- Investors in Diversity
- B Corporation
- Matrix Standard
- Ofsted – Education Inspection Framework
Quality standards that will demonstrate good practice in this characteristic are
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