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Workplace Gender Equality Amendment (Closing the Gender Pay Gap) Bill 2023


Type
Government
Originating house
Senate
Status
Act
Portfolio
Women

Summary

Amends the Workplace Gender Equality Act 2012 to: require the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) to publish gender pay gap information of relevant employers for each reporting period; rename the current 'minimum standards' as 'gender equality standards'; require relevant employers to provide executive summary and industry benchmark reports to all members of their governing body; include 'sexual harassment', 'harassment on the ground of sex' or 'discrimination' as gender equality indicators; change the title of the 'Director' of the WGEA to 'Chief Executive Officer'; and make a technical amendment to the definition of 'reporting period'.

Progress of bill

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Senate
Introduced and read a first time 08/02/23  
Second reading moved 08/02/23  
Second reading debate 23/03/23  
Second reading agreed to 23/03/23  
Third reading agreed to 23/03/23  
     
House of Representatives
Introduced and read a first time 23/03/23  
Second reading moved 28/03/23  
Second reading debate 28/03/23  
Second reading debate 29/03/23  
Second reading agreed to 30/03/23  
Third reading agreed to 30/03/23  
     
Finally passed both Houses 30/03/23  
Assent 11/04/23 Act no: 18 - Year: 2023
     

Text of bill

  • First reading

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  • As passed by both Houses

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Explanatory memoranda

  • Explanatory memorandum

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Second reading speeches


Proposed amendments

No proposed amendments have been circulated.

Schedules of amendments

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Notes