Queensland Numbered Acts

PUBLIC SECTOR ACT 2022 - SECT 28

28 Equity and diversity plan

(1) The chief executive of a prescribed entity must, as part of the entity’s workforce planning, make a document (an
"equity and diversity plan" ) that identifies the measures for improving equity and diversity in the entity in relation to employment matters.

(2) Without limiting subsection (1) , the measures identified in the equity and diversity plan must include—

(a) the establishment of objectives, strategies and targets for the employment of people who are members of 1 or more diversity target groups in the prescribed entity; and

(b) any other measure prescribed by regulation.

(3) The equity and diversity plan must be published—

(a) on the prescribed entity’s website; or

(b) if the prescribed entity does not have a website, in another publicly available way the chief executive of the entity considers appropriate.

(4) The chief executive of the prescribed entity—

(a) must review the equity and diversity plan annually; and

(b) may amend the plan at any time, having regard to the most recent equity and diversity audit and equity and diversity report; and

(c) is responsible for the implementation and outcomes of the plan.

(5) To remove any doubt, it is declared that the equity and diversity plan may also address matters about a group of employees that is not a diversity target group.

Example of a group of employees that is not a diversity target group—

people with diverse sexual orientations, gender identities or intersex variations