The Tech Workers Charter
Transparency in Work
Transparent pay and responsibilities
- Defined pay grades with clear objectives, responsibilities, and paths for progression.
Security against redundancy
- Transparency on funding and financial health.
- Offering permanent contracts wherever possible.
Sensible non-competes
- Non-compete clauses that don't lock employees out of future jobs.
Quality and partnership at work
Right to switch off
- No sign out of the Working Time Directive.
- Collaborative approach with workers to establish rules around what on call, flexible work, and fair hours should entail.
Right to Intellectual Property
- By default, workers should be allowed to own their personal code and re-use it.
- The employer forsakes rights to any project done outside of contracted work.
Flexible working hours
- Options available for remote work and part-time work.
- This should include progression objectives that do not exclude non-traditional working.
Tech For Good
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
- Tracking pay gaps and committing to closing them
- Policy and training around inclusion of the protected characteristics of the Equality Act 2010.
- Dropping 'grade requirements' and university degrees as 'essential' and taking CVs on the merit of experience and education.
Ethical Protections
- Workers must have the right to withhold their labour from projects that are of widespread ethical concern.
- Whistleblower protections.
Sustainability
- Divest from fossil fuels, with a commitment to a Just Transition
- Sustainability central to the greatest extent possible throughout the supply chain.