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DECEMBER KEY FIGURES

		Quarter		Year ended
		September 2011	December 2011	December 2010	December 2011
Number of disputes
	Commenced in period (no.)	53	59	215	186
	Total (no.)	66	74	227	192
Employees involved
	Newly involved ('000)	63.9	46.7	48.9	133.8
	Total ('000)	66.4	51.6	54.8	134.4
Working days lost ('000)		101.3	54.3	126.6	241.5

Working days lost

• For the December quarter 2011, there were 74 disputes, 8 more than in the September quarter 2011.
• The number of employees involved in industrial disputes in the December quarter 2011 was 51,600, a decrease from 66,400 in the September quarter 2011.
• There were 54,300 working days lost due to industrial disputation in the December quarter 2011, a decrease from 101,300 in the September quarter 2011.
• The combined Education and training and Health care and social assistance industries accounted for 16,600 (31%) of the total number of working days lost in the December quarter 2011.
• In the December quarter 2011, Queensland accounted for 22,100 (41%) of working days lost. Queensland also had the highest number of working days lost per thousand employees (10.6) for the quarter.

• During the year ended December 2011, there were 192 disputes, 29 fewer than in the year ended December 2010.
• During the year ended December 2011, there were 241,500 working days lost compared with 126,600 in the year ended December 2010.