The Workplace Agreements Database (WAD) is a unique and comprehensive database for enterprise agreements based research and policy development. WAD data is the keystone of the Department’s quarterly report about wage outcomes in agreements in Federal Enterprise Bargaining. This report and the WAD dataset more broadly is routinely used by organisations like the Reserve Bank of Australia and Treasury, as well as five hundred other subscribers. WAD data is also provided to others inside and outside the department, for use in departmental briefs, speeches, policy development and research.
Workplace Agreements Database
Agreements in WAD
180,000
Agreements added each year
6,000
Data items recorded per agreement
200
PAINPOINTS
1
Front-end of the internal portal is outdated and can only be accessed via Internet Explorer compatibility mode.
2
Functionality in the current solution is limited, e.g. lack of proper auditing, record validation, etc.
3
Ingestion of data from Fair Work Commission is problematic and has several issues that need manual intervention and hyper-vigilance.
4
There is no version control, activity logging or archiving of data.
5
The business team has introduced work-around processes e.g. coding sheet to circumnavigate system short-comings
FUTURE STATE BLUEPRINT
AREAS FOR ENHANCEMENT
Identity & Access Management for internal and external users
Back-end to provide the database, document storage and supporting services
Integration Services to ingest data and documents from FWC via automation
Sophisticated reporting and analytics
Automated categorisation of agreements and generation of pattern codes
Front-end for internal users for self-service of data and for external users to download pre-defined reports
