• Ensure you have a sound business plan and are in a stable financial position before recruiting workers through the AEWV scheme. Do not engage workers you might not have work for. • Ensure you understand and take seriously obligations to provide settlement support services which includes: providing relevant industry training, accommodation and transportation options, outlining the cost of living, how to get an IRD number, how to access healthcare services, and an introduction to the Citizens Advice Bureau. Ensure that workers have reasonable and fair accommodation arrangements organised before arriving in the country and ensure they receive assistance enrolling with primary health providers. Provide employer supported counselling. • Familiarise yourself with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. Ensure you undertake effective due diligence when engaging workers other than as employees, for example through subcontractors, and write decent employment standards into contracting arrangements. Provide information about employment rights and remedies to all workers engaged in your business. If your business does not have a current union relationship, consider forming relationships with migrant worker unions and present membership as an option for migrant workers. • Ensure workers you interact with know how to raise employment issues and can exercise their right to freedom of association. If your business engages workers on AEWV visas not as employees, for example through subcontracting arrangements, talk to the workers about their rights at work, provide information on access to remedies, and ensure that adequate employment standards form part of contracting arrangements. Ensure workers have meaningful opportunity to join a union. 2.2.3 Recommendations to community organisations • Ensure that community organisations and faith groups are aware of government agencies, unions and advocacy services which provide support to migrant workers and ensure migrant workers are supported in accessing these services. • Encourage community members to respect and take steps to protect human rights and create a safe environment for migrant workers to raise issues. Educate community members on human rights and how it applies to migrant exploitation. Discuss migrant exploitation at community functions and events. Speak out about employers who recruit workers who utilise unethical recruitment. • Provide support, including emotional and linguistic support and social inclusion, where possible. 7