• Close ethnic and gender pay gaps via collaboration between the state sector, big business and unions on policies, programmes and targets. • Increase the number of Pacific people in leadership hierarchies, advisory groups and local boards. • Require pay scales to be made public in all job advertisements, transparent career progression (including training, scholarships), fair pay, and user- friendly processes for pay equity claims. • Introduce procurement policies with targets to ensure jobs for Pacific women, disabled, youth, 55 years+ workers, including contracts for Pacific owned businesses. • Review the mobility of Pacific workers and the barriers placed by employers and Human Resources industry attitudes and practices. • Take action to address the pay gap, discrimination and working conditions Pacific peoples experience in employment, including the introduction of pay transparency mechanisms to end pay secrecy. • Address issues relating to bullying and sexual harassment of Pacific peoples in the workplace. • Address issues relating to the exploitation of Pacific peoples in the workforce, including creating safeguards against threats of deportation. Housing • Ensure that Pacific peoples have equal access to adequate housing, which is warm, dry, safe, secure, accessible and affordable. This include developing a human rights housing guideline to help landlords, including state housing providers, to ensure fair access, healthy, safe, affordable homes and secure tenancies. • Monitor and review the KiwiBuild programme (and any subsequent state-sponsored housing building programmes) to ensure that it meets the cultural requirements of Pacific peoples. • Address the overrepresentation of Pacific peoples in homelessness and facing housing crisis issues such as deprivation, overcrowding and unaffordability, including by: o Monitoring the Social Housing register to ensure Pacific people are accessing housing in a timely manner. 42 o Working with housing providers to address the lack of adequate housing. o Financial institutions to support collective borrowing and ownership of assets by Pacific households to support more families into home ownership. o Monitor and, if necessary, introduce measures to address racial discrimination in the private rental market which makes access to private rental accommodation more difficult for Pacific peoples (along with other racial minorities). Health • Ensure skilled and supported home-based care for Pacific elderly and disabled. • Build the Pacific cultural competency of the whole health workforce, including elder care, mental health, child and youth services, and disability services. • Increase the clinical Pacific workforce for private and public health services. • Mandatory involvement of Pacific experts and community leaders on the strategic planning of services and responses to national emergencies. • Continue to focus on specific programmes and actions aimed at improving health outcomes for Pacific peoples, such as increasing resourcing for the Pacific Community Health Fund to support Pacific community organisations put into action their own ideas to contribute towards the achievement of better health outcomes for Pacific peoples and their communities. • Ensure commitment to the implementation of the Pacific strategic framework, Ola Manuia: The Pacific Health and Wellbeing Action Plan 20202025, including adequate resourcing to achieve health and wellbeing outcomes for Pacific peoples. • Ensure that all parts of the health and disability sector are responsible for improving Pacific health outcomes and reducing inequalities. • Ensure adequate resourcing and access to culturally appropriate health services, including age-appropriate mental health services, with particular attention to Pacific children. Talanoa: Human rights issues for Pacific peoples in Aotearoa New Zealand