c.
Enact legislation that requires companies with more than 100 workers to publicly
report on their gender pay and bonus gap annually.
d.
Enact fair and robust pay equity legislation that will allow women in low paid female
dominated occupations to make claims against their employers.
e.
Fund specific research on the impact of conscious and unconscious bias on the gender
pay gap, and identify and implement recommendations to address this issue.
f.
Provide the partner of a mother or nominated primary care giver with paid partner’s
leave that is additional to and not shared with the mother or primary care giver’s
parental leave entitlement.
Recommendation 5
a.
Prioritise and fund affordable, high quality childcare to ensure women with children
can remain in the workforce and progress to senior roles.
b.
Increase targets for women on public sector boards to 50%. Make it a target, not an
aspirational goal.
c.
Implement an initial target for private sector boards of 30% women.
d.
Make a commitment to encourage the New Zealand Stock exchange to introduce
mandatory gender/diversity policies, and include a requirement to disclose how the
policy will be implemented and evaluated in line with the United Nations Guiding
Principles on Business and Human Rights.
e.
Act on previous CEDAW recommendations regarding temporary special measures.
Recommendation 6
a.
Introduce legislation requiring all workplaces to have a sexual harassment policy that
is robust and meets certain minimum standards.
b.
Create a nation-wide sexual harassment strategy and fund a centralised agency (like
WorkSafe) that is mandated to confidentially investigate complaints, provide support
to victims, and conduct sexual harassment training within work places.
c.
Investigate potential systems for appropriately recording complaints about
individuals to help identify potential patterns or recidivist activity.
Recommendation 7
a.
Prepare an interagency strategy, in alignment with best practice, to address human
trafficking and worker exploitation in New Zealand.
b.
Carry out research into key industries where human trafficking and exploitation
affecting women is taking place; specifically, migrant sex work, international
students, and the hospitality sector.
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