A growing number of social justice and community groups want to do pay more equitably. While this is complex, the Socially-Just Wage System that Platform initially pioneered in the early 2000s has become a bit of a cornerstone of this conversation and several organisations have adapted the original Platform policy to work in their own contexts.
We’ve recently created a financial modelling tool - the Socially Just Pay Calculator - to help groups navigate the maths of moving towards a needs-based waging system, but the questions that organisations grapple with inevitably go beyond the calculations. Money is always going to be a sensitive topic and the mechanisms of equitable pay policies will always tap into those sensitivities. Everyone getting paid individualised salaries; uplifts and ‘dincrements’; the messy politics of unearned wealth... these are but a few of the challenging areas that trying to do pay more equitably can surface in a group.
On Thursday 23 October (6-8pm) RadHR will host our second Soapbox, ‘What does 'socially-just pay' actually mean?’. Soapboxes are a new event series that aims to highlight the work of organisations that are at the forefront of figuring out what more equitable, care-centred and radical approaches to a particular policy might look like.
Join us online with speakers from: Platform London, Public Interest Research Centre (PIRC) and Cooperation Town.
The first half of this event will include a facilitated discussion between the panelists. The second half will focus on different breakout rooms with several of the panelists to explore themes such as:
- What does and doesn’t get valued in uplifts?
- The complexity of ‘downlifts’ and perceptions of unearned wealth
- Budgeting for unknown wage bills
- What other policies in our groups are affected by our approaches to pay?
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