The Act aims to maintain the accuracy and reliability of the information collected by WGEA. This is essential for monitoring progress and implementing effective policies to address workplace gender inequality. CEOs of relevant employers are required to review and approve the Public Reports before reporting contacts can successfully lodge the Gender Equality Report. This is known as CEO sign-off.

The Public Reports consist of two PDFs that must be generated and downloaded via the WGEA Employer Portal. The Public Reports are available once the Questionnaire, Workplace Profile (WPP) and Workforce Management Statistics (WMS) sections of your Gender Equality Report are ‘completed’ without any unresolved data anomalies.

For more information about the Public Reports and instruction to generate and download, refer to Document Generation.

Your Public Reports can be generated and downloaded once your Gender Equality Report is completed without any unresolved data anomalies and ready for lodgement.

You must generate and download your Public Reports for CEO (or equivalent) approval and sign-off before lodging your Gender Equality Report

Important

• Your organisation’s CEO (or equivalent) must review the Public Reports to ensure the information you are intending to lodge is correct.
• This sign-off is a critical step to ensure the accuracy of the information provided.
• Once CEO approval is received, you must check the relevant declaration within Employer Portal to confirm that your CEO has reviewed and approved the data before you can lodge your Report.
• Employers that lodge their Gender Equality by the due date will have 28 days to edit the report. If data needs to be amended, it must be re-signed by the CEO prior to re-lodging.
• After this 28-day change period, no further edits can be made. 

Review your report within 28 days of lodging

• If your report was lodged within the lodgement period (or approved extension period), 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 within an approved extension period).

For step-by-step instructions about lodging your Report, refer to Lodging your Report. 

Once you have successfully lodged your Report, refer to Next Steps - After Lodgement for information and instructions about your compliance requirements, including notification & access requirements.