Lodging your Gender Equality Report

Complete your Report 

Follow all steps required by reporting contacts to prepare and lodge a Report. This includes:

• Completing all reporting documents, and 
   
• Resolving any data anomalies.
   

• Reporting steps
   
• Resolving data anomalies
   
• Resolving data anomalies - step-by-step instructions

Generate your Public Reports

Once you have successfully completed your Questionnaire, WMS and WPP, you must generate and download your Public Reports 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 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 (at either the ABN level, or corporate group-wide level).

• Document generation

CEO sign-off (approval)

• Have your CEO (or equivalent) review your Public Reporting and sign-off.
   

• CEO sign-off

Lodge your report

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

For step-by-step instructions on lodging your Report, refer to: 

• Lodging your report - step-by-step instructions.

Note: to lodge your Gender Equality Report, you must declare:

• any information you have provided in the Questionnaire free text responses that may have any privacy impacts or considerations, and
   
• that the data provided by you on behalf of your employer is accurate and correct.
   
• Once the declarations are complete, press submit. 
   
• You will receive a confirmation email after a successful submission.
   

• Employer Portal Access
   
• Lodging your report - step-by-step instructions 

Review your report within 28 days of lodging

• If your report was lodged within the lodgement period or an approved extension period, provided the extension period does not coincide with program closure, you will have 28 calendar days to review and edit your reporting documents after lodgement.
   
• The reporting documents (Questionnaire, Workforce Management Statistics and Workplace Profile) cannot be edited once the 28-day review period has ended.
   
• If changed are needed, you must log into the Employer Portal to:
   
  • update your reporting document/s (if you re-enter a section and make any edits to an uploaded file or answer, you will reopen your report)
     
  • resolve any outstanding data anomalies
     
  • obtain CEO approval for the edited report, and 
     
  • re-lodge your report during the review period.
     

Important: 

• The 28-day review period is only guaranteed to employers that lodge within the 2-month lodgement period or an approved extension period, provided the extension period does not coincide with program closure.
• The 28 day review period does not apply to selecting targets. Once target selection is lodged it cannot be changed.

• Reporting Dates
   
• CEO sign-off

Compliance requirements

Know your reporting compliance requirements & important reporting dates. This includes:

• Completing all Notification & Access requirements, 
   
• Give Reports to governing body (if any), and
   
• If you are a Designated Relevant Employer, meet the Gender Equality Standards requirements and Gender Equality Targets requirement.
   

• Reporting Compliance
   
• Reporting Dates

Follow the Next steps - after lodgement 

Follow all steps required by relevant employers after successfully lodging a Report. 

• Next steps - after lodgement

Certificate of Compliance

When a relevant employer lodges its Gender Equality Report within the lodgement period (or approved extension period) and meets all reporting compliance requirements, it will be deemed compliant with the Act and therefore eligible to receive a Certificate of Compliance.

• Certificate of Compliance