Next steps - after lodgement

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 changes 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).
   
• The 28 day review period does not apply to selecting targets. Once target selection is lodged it cannot be changed.

• Reporting Dates
   
• Lodging your Gender Equality Report
   
• CEO sign-off 

Notify and provide access to the public reports

• Inform employees and shareholders or members of the employer that your report has been lodged and provide access to the public reports - as soon as reasonably practicable* after your report is lodged
   
• Inform employee organisations with members in your workplace that your report has been lodged - within 7 days of lodging your report
   
• Inform employees and employee organisations of the opportunity to comment on your public reports - as soon as reasonably practicable* after your report is lodged

• Notification and access requirements
   
• Commenting on an employer's report

Share the Executive Summary(s) and Industry Benchmark Report with governing body (if any)

• Employers must generate and download their Executive Summary(s).
   
• Employers must generate and download their Industry Benchmark Report (when available).
   
• Employers must review the document(s)
   
• The CEO (or equivalent) of a relevant employer is required to give a copy of the Executive Summary and Industry Benchmark Report to each member of the governing body (if any). 
   

• Reporting compliance
   
• Notification and access requirements
   
• Executive Summary
   
• Industry Benchmark Report
   
• Guide to generating and downloading your ES and IBR
   

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

Gender Pay Gaps Publication

• WGEA uses the data lodged by relevant employers within their Report to calculate gender pay gaps (GPGs).
   
• WGEA then publishes the GPGs on the WGEA Data Explorer and in an Employer Gender Pay Gaps Report.
   
• WGEA will notify reporting contacts via email prior to GPG publication.

• Gender Pay Gaps

Employer Statements

• Relevant employers can provide a link to an Employer Statement to sit alongside their gender pay gap results published on the WGEA Data Explorer.  
   
• This statement allows employers to communicate with key stakeholders about their gender pay gap and the actions they undertake to address it.

• Employer Statements