If your organisation is covered by the Act, you need to:

1. Develop a Workplace Program; and
2. Report annually to EOWA on the program and its effectiveness.

To comply with the requirements of the Act, your report to EOWA needs to show that you have completed the following six steps:

Step 1  Prepared a workplace profile of employee numbers by gender and job attributes (eg, classification, permanent status, etc); 
Step 2 Analysed the issues for women in your workplace for each of the seven Employment Matters:

1. Recruitment and selection
2. Promotion, transfer and termination
3. Training development
4. Work organisation
5. Conditions of service
6. Arrangements for dealing with sex-based harassment, and
7. Arrangements for dealing with pregnancy, potential pregnancy and breastfeeding;

Step 3 Identified the priority issues;
Step 4 Undertook action to address the priority issues;
Step 5 Evaluated the effectiveness of your actions; and
Step 6 Identified future actions.

All organisations covered by the Act are required to develop a workplace program commencing on 1 April of the year previous (or immediately after becoming covered by the Act) until 31 March of the current year.

The Reporting Cycle Timeline highlights the critical stages in the reporting period.