Bill
Workplace Gender Equality Amendment (Closing the Gender Pay Gap) Bill 2023
passed, as at 2023-04-11. Women portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Women
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2023-02-08
- second reading — 2023-02-08
- second reading — 2023-03-23
- second reading — 2023-03-23
- third reading — 2023-03-23
- introduced — 2023-03-23
- second reading — 2023-03-28
- second reading — 2023-03-28
- second reading — 2023-03-29
- second reading — 2023-03-30
- third reading — 2023-03-30
- passed — 2023-03-30
- royal assent — 2023-04-11
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2023-02-08.
The bill would require the Workplace Gender Equality Agency to publish the gender pay gap of each large employer.
It would also rename the current minimum standards as gender equality standards and force chief executives to give certain reports to their governing body.
The measures implement four of ten recommendations from a 2022 review, with a further review of the changes planned five years after passage.
- The bill gives the Workplace Gender Equality Agency a new power to release employer-level gender pay gap data.
- The bill renames minimum standards as gender equality standards.
- The bill requires chief executives of relevant employers to provide the Executive Summary and Industry Benchmark Report to all members of their governing body.
- The bill amends the Act to align with its legislative instrument on collecting information about sexual harassment and discrimination.
Relevant employers, defined as registered higher education institutions, employers of 100 or more employees in Australia, Commonwealth companies, and Commonwealth entities, are affected.
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