Workplace Gender Equality Act 2012

The functions of the Agency are:

to advise and assist employers in promoting and improving gender equality in the workplace; and

to develop, in consultation with relevant employers and employee organisations, benchmarks in relation to gender equality indicators; and

to issue guidelines to assist relevant employers to achieve the purposes of this Act; and

to review compliance with this Act by relevant employers, to review public reports lodged by relevant employers and to deal with those reports in accordance with this Act; and

to collect and analyse information provided by relevant employers under this Act to assist the Agency to advise the Minister in relation to legislative instruments made under this Act; and

to undertake research, educational programs and other programs for the purpose of promoting and improving gender equality in the workplace; and

to work with employers to maximise the effectiveness of the administration of this Act, including by minimising the regulatory burden on employers; and

to promote and contribute to understanding and acceptance, and public discussion, of gender equality in the workplace; and

to review the effectiveness of this Act in achieving its purposes; and

to report to the Minister on such matters in relation to gender equality in the workplace as the Agency thinks fit (including a review under paragraph (g)).

Paragraph (d): see also section 33A.

In addition to any other powers conferred on the Agency by this Act, the Agency has power to do all things necessary or convenient to be done for or in connection with the performance of the functions of the Agency.