Cover page
The cover page provides important context. It will help us assess your progress report.
This section includes:
Organisation name (required)
Insert your organisation’s full legal name (that is, not an abbreviation or shorthand) and trading name (the name you are most well-known by in your industry or publicly).
Total number of employees (recommended)
Insert the total number of employees and their full-time equivalent workload (FTE) in your organisation on 30 June 2025.
Response rate to employee experience survey (recommended)
Insert the People matter survey (or equivalent) response rate for your organisation. The response rate is the percentage of your total workforce who completed the survey.
The Victorian Public Sector Commission (or alternative survey provider) should supply this with your survey results. This must be the survey that you used for your 2025 workplace gender audit.
Contextual information (recommended)
Describe anything that affected your progress towards gender equality and your ability to make reasonable and material progress on the workplace gender equality indicators in the Act.
You may wish to discuss the factors in section 16(2) of the Act. These are the factors that the Commissioner considers when determining whether a duty holder has made reasonable and material progress.
The ‘Factors affecting progress’ webpage has further information.
You will also have an opportunity to discuss these in the ‘workplace gender equality indicators’ section of your progress report. If applicable, you may copy and paste some or all of the same information in both sections of the progress report.
Location (recommended)
Insert either metropolitan, regional or rural. Please use your organisation’s primary location or your central office. If you insert ‘other’, please explain.
Attestation by head of organisation (required)
Your head of organisation (CEO or equivalent) must complete this section to:
- show they have approved your progress report, and
- confirm that your organisation has completed all relevant gender impact assessments.
Your CEO can also use this space to provide further comments for the Commissioner to consider when assessing your progress report. Your CEO will be your Secretary (for Victorian government departments), Vice-Chancellor (for universities) or equivalent.
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