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DECEMBER KEY FIGURES

		Quarter		Year ended
		September 2012	December 2012	December 2011	December 2012
Number of disputes
	Commenced in period (no.)	64	50	186	197
	Total (no.)	68	58	192	204
Employees involved
	Newly involved ('000)	53.7	14.3	133.8	142.8
	Total ('000)	55.8	27.3	134.4	143.3
Working days lost ('000)		110.0	25.7	241.5	273.2

Working days lost

• In the December quarter 2012 there were 58 disputes, 10 less than in the September quarter 2012.
• The number of employees involved in industrial disputes in the December quarter 2012 was 27,300, a decrease from 55,800 in the September quarter 2012.
• There were 25,700 working days lost due to industrial disputation in the December quarter 2012, a decrease from 110,000 in the September quarter 2012.
• The combined Education and training and Health care and social assistance industry (14,100) accounted for 55% of the total number of working days lost in the December quarter 2012. The Coal mining industry had the highest number of working days lost per thousand employees (56.8) this quarter.
• New South Wales (11,800) and Victoria (10,600) together accounted for 87% of working days lost in the December quarter 2012.

• During the year ended December 2012, there were 204 disputes, 12 more than in the year ended December 2011.
• During the year ended December 2012, there were 273,200 working days lost compared with 241,500 in the year ended December 2011.