Lodging your Gender Equality Report

This page provides a summary of the steps required by reporting contacts to lodge a Gender Equality Report. Each step has a link to the relevant section of the Reporting Guide.
 

Step

Action required

Links to relevant pages 

1

Ensure you have completed all reporting documents:

  • Questionnaire
  • Workforce Management Statistics (WMS)
  • Workplace Profile (WPP)
     

2

Resolve any data anomalies

  • Pass all data quality checks on your uploaded reporting documents.
  • If any data errors, warnings or notifications are identified, follow the displayed instructions to resolve.
  • Once the documents have been completed successfully, they will have a status of ‘completed’.
     

3

Generate your public reporting documents

Once you have successfully completed your Questionnaire, WMS and WPP, you must generate and download the documents to share with your CEO (or equivalent) for sign-off before you can lodge the report. 

  1. Public Report - Questionnaire: this document displays your responses and answers from the Questionnaire.
  2. Public Report - Employee Data Tables: this document displays the data tables covering composition of your workforce and employee movements from the WPP and WMS.

4

CEO sign-off

  • Have your CEO (or equivalent) review your public reporting documents and sign-off.
     

5

Lodge your report

  • Once you have CEO sign-off, complete the declarations and consents process, and
  • Lodge your report within the Employer Portal.
     

6

Review your report within 28 days of lodging

  • If you lodged your report within the lodgement period (or approved extension period), you will have 28 days to review and amend the report following lodgement.
  • Reporting documents (Questionnaire, WMS and WPP) cannot be edited once the 28-day period has passed.

7

Complete all Notification and Access requirements

Once you have successfully lodged your Report, you must complete the Notification & Access compliance requirements:

  • Make public reports accessible to employees and any shareholders or members of the employer.
  • Inform employee organisations that you have lodged a Report.
  • Inform employees and employee organisations of the opportunity to comment on the Report.
  • Executive Summary and Industry Benchmark Report to be given to each member of your governing body (if any).