• The EEO Commissioner made an oral submission to the Education and Workplace Relations Committee on the Equal Pay Amendment Bill calling for a new independent body to ensure pay transparency. • The Commission facilitated an ethnic family violence strategy consultation with Shakti, non-government organisations and ethnic minority communities. • We chaired three quarterly meetings of the Caring Counts Coalition, which advocates for pay equity for the aged-care sector and includes members from private aged-care providers, New Zealand Nurses Association, Careerforce and Age Concern. • In March 2019 the Commission launched the Value of Care study, conducted by AUT with funding from the Commission, Careerforce, and the New Zealand Work Institute. The study looks at the impact of the $2 billion pay equity settlement on the quality of life of workers and managers working in residential care, home and community care, and the disability sector. • We co-authored a paper with the Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) programme advocating for the expansion of the definition of FGM in the Crimes Act 1961 to align with World Health Organisation guidance. This background paper will inform a private member’s bill the Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians are championing which will go in the ballot in September 2019 with cross-party support. • Quarterly meetings have been established with the Employers and Manufacturers Association (EMA) to advance EEO issues for older workers. The Commission is also a committee member of a group facilitated by the EMA, alongside the Office for Seniors to look at ageing workforce and issues for older workers. 22 Human Rights Commission