A practical guide to Fair Work for the creative and cultural sectors in Scotland.
The Illustrated Fair Work Guide
First Edition
A practical guide to Fair Work for employers in the creative and cultural sectors in Scotland.
Designed around the Scottish Government’s Fair Work policy, this guide helps employers understand how to build and grow workplaces that prioritise good, fair and decent working practices for everyone – including freelance creatives.
With practical information and inspiring real-life examples it will help you visualise and translate best practice employment for your own organisation.
Edited by Heather Parry
Written by Jeanie Scott with Morvern Cunningham and Chris Sharratt
Designed and illustrated by Maria Stoian
Published by Culture Radar
What this guide is...
The creative and cultural sector is a complex and varied beast, with no two workplaces the same, and a heavy reliance on freelance workers at all levels. For this reason, this short Guide could never be a step-by-step tool, or a rule book for applying Fair Work across the board.
Instead, we’ve laid out this Guide with key information about Fair Work alongside inspiring, real-life examples of what it looks like in practice. To help you visualise what Fair Work might look like in the context of your own organisation, case studies have been drawn from interviews with employers and practitioners from organisations of all sizes, different artforms and special interest areas from across Scotland.
What's in the guide?
It cover the basics of Fair Work and introduces you to each of the Scottish Government's Fair Work Dimensions - Effective Voice, Opportunity, Fulfilment, Respect and Security - with practical suggestions of how you might incorporate them into work planning and processes.
Case studies from Creative Edinburgh, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Fèis Rois, Gaada, Glasgow Women's Library, Intercultural Youth Scotland, Luminate, National Theatre of Scotland, Stellar Quines Theatre Co. and The Work Room among many others demonstrate how they've approached the same challenges.
And we’ve signposted to further reading, resources, tools and accreditation programmes for when you want to know more or you're ready to try different approaches.
We are delighted to have worked with the absolutely brilliant Maria Stoian and Heather Parry of the Illustrated Freelancer’s Guide who have helped us present all of this in an accessible, attractive and (as far as is possible when interpreting government policy) fun way!
If you don't already have your copy of the
Illustrated Freelancer's Guide you can download a copy from the Creative Scotland website
here.
Review of Fair Work in the creative and cultural sectors of Scotland
Culture Radar was commissioned to deliver this sector-wide review of Fair Work in 2021.
The work was commissioned by Creative Scotland on behalf of the Scottish Government as an action of the Cultural Strategy for Scotland.
The report and linked resources can be downloaded from Creative Scotland's Fair Work pages.