Are you a student, pupil, teacher, parent, student union, employer or careers advisor? Anybody can join the Earning + Learning campaign! Just download the materials on this page, print them out, and post them wherever there are young people both in education and working.
Are you a student or do you work with students? You can put posters up in schools, colleges, universities, student unions, workplaces – wherever students go, and wherever students work! Don’t have permission to hang up a poster? You can hand out postcards to your fellow students or colleagues instead.
Are you a union rep? You could promote the campaign to members in branch meetings, union Facebook or WhatsApp groups, and use the campaign resources as part of your recruitment and organising efforts to build a strong union in your workplace.
Don’t have access to printing? Share the campaign on social media instead!
Do you work for an organisation that supports students? Get in touch via our contact form if you are interested in working together with the campaign. We can provide training and speakers on the topic of student worker rights for events and organisations.
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Postcards
These posters and postcards have been co-developed with working students to address their main concerns about working rights, with additional insights from the ‘L-earning: rethinking young women’s working lives‘ research project. The posters address common problems students encounter while working and studying: being paid less than minimum wage, working too many hours than is legally allowed, not being given a fair share of tips, not being given their legally required breaks, mistreatment from managers and customers, and being unsure about their rights such as paid sick leave.
Each poster gives a short bit of information on the work problem it discusses, emphasises that employment rights apply to students as well, and directs students to the website to learn more. Additionally, the posters encourage students to learn about their working rights even if they do not have any problems at work at all, and to find out more about their new and upcoming employment rights that are coming in as a result of the Employment Rights Act (2025).
The full poster range includes the following ten posters:
- All unions are for students – some unions have cheap or free student membership
- Not getting your tips? – ask for the tip policy in writing
- Called in sick to your part-time job? – you can get sick pay from the first day you are ill
- You are getting new rights at work – find out what they are
- Getting paid less than minimum wage? – student jobs should still pay at least minimum wage
- You have a right to rest – you are legally entitled to paid time off and daily rest breaks
- Is your student job causing you problems? – learn about your rights and where to get help
- Your boss hopes you don’t read this!
- Love your job? – know your rights, just in case
- Your manager should treat you with respect – discrimination at work is illegal
Each poster also states: Studying and working? Employment rights apply to you!
For high-quality print ready versions of the files, please get in touch via our contact form and we will send those to you.
Fair use: You can download, print, screenshot, share, distribute, post and even frame the campaign materials! However, please do not make changes to them, post them in a place you have no permission to do so, sell/profit off them, or remove the campaign’s logo or QR code.