Our values
Getting under the hood of key greenhouse gas flows underpins the company’s environmental mission. Of equal importance is our social mission to provide high quality scientific tools and expertise to all who are interested in accurately understanding these crucial greenhouse gas pathways. Our commitment to these, and other responsible business practices, are demonstrated by our accreditation by the Good Business Charter and the Living Wage Foundation.
1. We commit to pay our directly employed and regularly contracted staff the real living wage as defined by the Living Wage Foundation.
2. We commit to only use zero or minimal hours contracts when it is mutually beneficial and accepted by both us and the employee.
3. We will actively support and encourage employee well-being treating those with legitimate sickness in a fair and respectful manner and promote access to impartial support and advice for employees with physical and mental health needs.
4. We commit to having a way where every employee can make suggestions or raise issues with senior management.
5. We commit to have robust measures in place to encourage diversity at key stages of recruitment, selection and retention of employees and to prevent harassment or victimisation in the workplace.
6. We care about the environment and encourage the development of good environmental practice as an organisation, seeking to minimise our impact and commit to improve it.
7. We commit to pay our taxes where applicable, only use tax allowances for the purpose intended, and be transparent in our relationship with HMRC.
8. We have a clear commitment to our stakeholders and prioritise addressing and learning from stakeholder feedback, seeking to put negative issues right.
9. We commit to ethical sourcing of anything we purchase, such as by applying standards set out in the Ethical Trading Initiative Base Code where relevant.
10. We commit to paying our suppliers promptly, and within at least 30 days.
Good Business Charter
We are proud to be accredited by the Good Business Charter as this reflects our efforts to value and support all of our wider stakeholders - including our customers, employees, suppliers and our own impact on the environment and society.
The GBC consists of 10 components and more details for each of these components can be found on their website www.goodbusinesscharter.com
As an organisation with under 51 employees:
We love our Yorkshire home - and one of the main reasons we do, is because of the Yorkshire people.
Which is why it’s particularly disturbing to hear that nearly a fifth (18.5%) of workers in our region earn less than they need to get by. We’re doing what we can to help and Earthbound Scientific have committed to pay the real Living Wage. As a responsible employer, it’s the least we can do for our amazing staff and our local economy.