Reporting platform status
The Gender Equality Act Reporting Platform is used by defined entities to upload and manage their reporting obligations, and to analyse their audit data.
Release history
- July 2023: Major release for 2023 in support of the progress reporting obligation cycle. Highlights include:
- introduction of the 'Review' stage for viewing, assessing and analysing data before submission to the Commissioner
- introduction of the 'Review' report to enable the quality of uploaded data to be assessed
- introduction of the 'Public preview' report to enable organisations to view how their information will appear on the Insights Portal before it is published
- support for the enhanced workforce reporting template.
Issues
- 6 November 2023: The reporting platform is currently affected by the following issues.
- An issue that is preventing some uploaded audit data from being viewed in reports.
- An issue that is incorrectly flagging an error in the Data Quality Review report.
Refer to the Open issues section below for further information about these issues.
Insights Portal status
The Insights Portal is used by the public to view information that has been published by the Commissioner under powers described by The Gender Equality Act 2020 (Vic). Information published may include Gender Equality Action Plans (GEAPs), progress reports, and workplace gender audit and progress audit results.
Release history
- July 2023: Minor release for 2023 in support of the progress reporting obligation cycle. There are no significant changes to the functionality of the Insights Portal for 2023.
Issues
- There are no current issues affecting the Insights Portal.
Open issues
INC1246358 - Audit data not flowing to reports
Outline
- The reporting platform is used by organisations to upload and submit progress audit data.
- After uploading audit data and moving the audit to a status of 'Review', the data should become visible in platform data reports within 24 hours.
- For a small number of organisations, this is not happening automatically.
Impact
- Audits contain 2 sets of data: workforce data and employee experience data.
- The issue is being triggered when there is a delay of a day or more between when audit data is uploaded to the platform, and when the audit is moved into a status of 'Review'
- The resulting impact of this issue differs based on what data has been uploaded, and how many times an audit has been moved to the 'Review' state.
- However, it may result in:
- no audit data being visible in the reports
- only workforce or employee experience data being visible in the reports
- stale data (data from a previous review) being visible in the reports.
Mitigation
- A workaround is available for this issue.
- While we investigate and develop an appropriate resolution, we will monitor all audits for signals that the audit may be affected.
- In instances where the audit is, or is considered likely to be affected, we will communicate with the affected organisation to let them know that their audit is affected.
- We will either apply a repair of the audit for the organisation, or where the organisation needs to take action, we will supply instructions for applying a workaround to address the issue.
- Organisations that have not encountered this issue, or have not yet uploaded their audit data, can minimise the likelihood of encountering the issue by promptly moving their audit data to the 'Review' stage after uploading it to the reporting platform. If an audit is moved to review on the same day as audit data is uploaded, this issue is unlikely to occur.
Status and history
- 25 Oct 2023
- We are working closely with our technology support partners to identify an appropriate resolution.
- We have identified workarounds to mitigate the impact of the issue for all affected organisations.
- Consequently, organisations can continue to upload audit data to the platform and use the platform to analyse their audit data.
INC1264167 - Incorrect result for Data Quality Review report rule E_19
Outline
- After uploading audit data and moving the audit to a status of 'Review', the data should become visible in platform data reports within 24 hours.
- Among these reports is the Data Quality Review report, which provides automated feedback on potential issues with the uploaded data.
- For some organisations, rule E_19 is incorrectly producing a 'Fail' result when it should be producing a 'Pass' result.
Impact
- Rule E_19 checks that values in the 'Weekly pay' field of the Employee dataset are in the expected range.
- Rule E_19 should produce a 'Pass' result when every value in the 'Weekly pay' field is either blank or at least $800.
- When an organisation's data contains only blank values, or a mixture of both blank values and values above $800, the rule is incorrectly producing a 'Fail' result.
- Only rule E_19 is affected. All other rules continue to operate normally.
Mitigation
- The guidance for rule E_19 recommends that organisations failing this rule revise their audit data.
- Please review your Employee dataset for 'Weekly pay' values and ensure that all values are either above $800 or left blank.
- Once every 'Weekly pay' value is blank or at least $800, you may disregard the 'Fail' result.
- Once the issue is resolved, the 'Fail' result will automatically resolve to a 'Pass'.
Status and history
- 24 Nov 2023
- The impact section of the above summary was updated to clarify that this issue can occur when an organisation's data contains only blank values.
- 3 Nov 2023
- We are working closely with our technology support partners to identify an appropriate resolution.
- In the interim, organisations can continue to upload audit data to the platform and use the platform to analyse their audit data.
INC1280395 - Senior leader flexible work data missing
Outline
- After uploading audit data and moving the audit to a status of 'Review', the data should become visible in platform data reports within 24 hours.
- Among these reports is the Indicators report, which allows users to explore their audit results on a range of workplace gender equality indicator data measures(opens in a new window).
- For organisations that upload unit level workforce data, the table that should display the flexible work arrangements used by senior leaders is showing all zero (0) results.
Impact
- Normally, the Indicators report will calculate how many active senior leaders used each type of flexible work arrangement for any organisation that provided the necessary data.
- Organisations whose data includes at least one employee identified as an active senior leader should see results in this table, but they currently do not.
- No other components of the Indicators report are affected.
- No other reports are affected.
- This issue affects data from 2023 only. Audit results from 2021 are not affected.
Mitigation
- Organisations with missing senior leader flexible work results can use the Excel tool below to calculate the missing results directly from their Employee data.
INC1280395 - Senior leader flexible work calculator
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Status and history
- 24 Nov 2023
- We are working closely with our technology support partners to identify an appropriate resolution.
- We have developed an Excel tool to mitigate the impact of the issue for all affected organisations.
- Consequently, organisations can continue to upload audit data to the platform and use the platform to analyse their audit data across the remaining data measures(opens in a new window).
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