Community Engagement Report for developing a National Action Plan Against Racism 4. Upholding human rights (continued) Employment • Ensure diverse representation at all levels of employment. • Recognise and remunerate the cultural capability skills that ethnic Tangata Tiriti have in the workplace. • Ensure workplace diversity and inclusion strategies are meaningful and create change. • Provide ongoing mentoring and professional development in the workplace. • Eliminate barriers to workforce participation, including the immigration focus on temporary migration that prevents skilled migrants from working to their abilities. • Require companies and organisations above a certain size to put anti-racist human resource policies in place, include regular progress reporting on them, and provide for external checks. • Provide support for human resources officers to upskill themselves in the detection and management of workplace racism. • Require all workplaces to do ethnic pay gap assessments and report on them. • Consider implementing policies such as the European Union’s Race Equality Directive, which provides protections against discrimination in employment, and ensure it is extended to all public agencies. Health • Develop a diverse health workforce, particularly in leadership, peak bodies and complaints bodies, and ensure culturally safe healthcare. • Ensure health interventions are co-designed with affected communities. • Ensure ethnicity data classification in health captures the nuance of a community’s origin and history. Criminal justice • Ensure the justice system recognises the Tiriti partnership, including the exploration of alternative justice pathways. • Assess counterterrorism and security measures to ensure they do not result in ethnic profiling of – and police violence against – Māori and ethnic minorities. • Monitor the impact of counter-terrorism work. • Ensure communities at the grassroots are aware of pathways to report racism and to access support. • Ensure that where people have reported racism, they receive a timely and just response. • Collect and publish data on hate crimes, ensuring that racist crimes are identified and prosecuted as such. Adequate standard of living and housing • Develop a campaign to make visible the link between racism and poverty. • Ensure a living wage and bridge the Pacific and ethnic pay gaps. Equality data • Measure the extent of racism, and ensure good quality data is available for this purpose. • Avoid the deficit framing of ethnicity data. Other legislative and policy changes • Ensure policymakers engage with communities, and systematically and effectively integrate their views into policy development. • Ensure government agencies take responsibility for adverse outcomes and are held accountable. New Zealand Human Rights Commission 79