UNITED NATIONS • Forum on Minority Issues D. Trade unions 48. Trade unions should recruit and be supportive of minority workers, including tackling the problems of minorities in the labour force. They should extend their efforts to economic sectors where minorities are often found. Negotiation of collective agreements should systematically take minority interests into account. 49. Trade unions should extend institutional, legal and advocacy support to informal economy workers where minority groups may be concentrated, including to domestic workers, agricultural labourers and street vendors. Efforts can be made to enable workers in these sectors and all other relevant sectors to establish representative networks or organizations, including with the support of meeting space, legal advice, start-up funds or advice on institution-building. 50. Trade unions should ensure the full, effective and equal participation of minority union members in leadership and decision-making structures of the union. They should ensure that information on trade union activities is accessible to minorities, including through translation into relevant minority languages or outreach to minority media outlets. 51. Trade unions should survey union members to identify issues of discrimination on the basis of minority identity, including multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination on the basis of sex, age, disability, sexual orientation and gender identity, that have affected equal access to employment and labour rights. Trade unions should establish task forces to develop plans of action to eradicate labour practices that discriminate against minorities. E. Private business sector, including national and transnational corporations 52. All business enterprises should ensure that their operations comply with national and international labour standards. Employers should ensure that persons from minority groups have access to their labour rights without discrimination, including in the areas of hiring, remuneration, promotion, the right to join and form trade unions and to take part in their activities, access to employment tribunals, maternity leave, childcare and pensions. 53. Employers should aim for a workforce that reflects the ethnic, religious and linguistic diversity of the national or local population. Job vacancies should be advertised in local minority media outlets and recruitment drives should reach out to local community organizations. Companies also should adopt affirmative programmes and special retention initiatives, and consider the creation of designated traineeships for persons belonging to minorities. Businesses should train employees on non-discrimination, minority rights and cultural awareness and, where appropriate, offer services in minority languages. The appointment of data protection officers should be encouraged. 38 Compilation of Recommendations of the First Four Sessions 2008 to 2011