INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES
There were 2,700 working days lost due to industrial disputes in the ACT for the year ended June 2007. This was 300 days more than the previous year, with 2,400 working days lost. Nationally, 88,400 working days were lost due to industrial disputes for the year ended June 2007, which was less than half the number lost in the previous year (188,600 days).
For the year to June 2007, there were 15.5 working days lost per thousand employees due to industrial disputes in the ACT, which compares with 14.1 working days lost per thousand employees in the year to June 2006. Nationally, working days lost per thousand employees declined from 21.6 in the year to June 2006 to 9.9 in the year to June 2007.
