Impact The Commission has been involved in a range of activities to progress equal employment opportunities: • The Commission launched an Ending Pay Secrecy campaign in March 2019 calling for the Government to establish an independent body to ensure transparency in reporting about pay equity. The campaign video has been viewed more than 25,000 times on Commission social media platforms. • We hosted a Preventing Pacific Worker Exploitation in New Zealand fono with the Ministry for Pacific Peoples in May 2019. The EEO Commissioner addressed the fono about the need for recruitment agencies and employers to ensure that ethical procurement and hiring practices are embedded in policies and workplaces to protect workers and prevent human rights abuses in their supply chain. The one-day workshop was attended by members of the public, social services agencies, industry representatives, employers of seasonal workers, Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, Police and Oranga Tamariki. Participants talked about their experiences, where they felt law and policy implementation failed to protect vulnerable workers from exploitation, and demanded social services support for those affected, including young people and children forced to work. • The Commission hosted a workshop on Modern Slavery with large New Zealand businesses which are reporting under Australia’s new Modern Slavery Act and incorporating human rights impacts into their supply chains. • The Business and Human Rights Steering Group, consisting of the Commission, ANZ, Fonterra, Ricoh, Countdown, EY, The Warehouse and Vodafone, are finalists in a Sustainable Business Award for their work on family violence in workplace collaboration, consisting of a model policy for business and a microsite https://www. businessworkingtoendfamilyviolence.nz/. The awards ceremony is in November 2019. Important elements of the best-practice policies promoted by the microsite became law when the Domestic Violence – Victims’ Protection Act 2018 came into effect on 1 April 2019. • The Suffrage 125 video, Still Striving for Equality, had its premiere. The video focuses on the serious human rights issues still facing women today – our unprecedented family violence statistics, the gender pay gap and a lack of women in business leadership. • The Commission facilitated a debate on the use of quotas as a mechanism for getting more women onto private sector boards. The debate was held at Parliament on 31 October 2018 in partnership with the Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians, Global Women and the Ministry for Women. It was well attended and live-streamed to 2,000 viewers through the Commission’s Facebook page. Annual Report 2019 21