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Statistics 2013-2014

Complaints received by ground and area 2013-14

	Emp	Goods & Services	Accom	Educ	Clubs	Qual bod	Rac vil	Hom vil	HIV vil	Trans vil	Oth	Total	%
Disability	148	135	13	30	2	0	0	0	0	0	4	332	27.9
Race	70	71	71	6	23	5	1	0	0	0	10	186	15.7
Victimisation	97	16	1	3	1	0	0	3	0	0	1	122	10.3
Sex	65	28	2	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	6	105	8.8
Sexual harassment	88	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	95	8.0
Age	47	22	4	5	1	1	0	0	0	0	3	83	7.0
Racial vilification	1	0	0	0	0	0	43	0	0	0	0	44	3.7
Carer’s responsibilities	41	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	41	3.5
Homosexuality	20	6	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	29	2.4
Homosexual vilification	0	0	0	0	0	0	20	0	0	0	0	20	1.7
Marital/domestic status	7	10	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	20	1.7
Aiding unlawful act	8	1	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	14	1.2
Transgender	1	4	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	7	0.6
Transgender vilification	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	0	7	0.6
HIV/AIDS vilification	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0.1
Other	13	5	2	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	6	29	2.4
Not specified	10	19	6	3	1	0	2	0	0	0	14	53	14.5
Total	616	322	44	70	12	4	43	23	1	7	46	1188	100
%	51.9	27.1	3.7	5.9	1.0	0.3	3.6	1.9	0.1	0.6	3.9	100

Type of employer 2013-14

	No	%
Private enterprise	244	39.6
State govt department	93	15.1
Individual male	60	9.7
Hospital	51	8.3
Local government	33	5.4
State stat authority	33	5.4
Education (public)	22	3.6
Non-profit association	9	1.5
Registered clubs	9	1.5
Education (private)	7	1.1
Individual female	7	1.1
Other	44	7.1
Not known	4	0.6
Total	616	100

Subject of employment complaints 2013-14

	No	%
Work environment and harassment	289	46.9
Classification/benefits	124	20.1
Dismissal	103	16.7
Recruitment/selection	69	11.2
Promotion	11	1.8
Resignation	6	1.0
Retrenchment/redundancy	6	1.0
Transfer	4	0.6
Demotion	3	0.5
Retirement	1	0.2
Total	616	100

Outcome of complaints finalised 2013-14

	No	%
Settled at or after conciliation	231	20.9
Settled before conciliation	89	8.1
Referred to NCAT – conciliation unsuccessful or not suitable	158	14.3
Referred to Attorney General – serious vilification	2	0.2
Declined before investigation – not a contravention	144	13.0
Declined before investigation – older than 12 months	24	2.2
Declined before investigation – specific penalty imposed	1	0.1
Declined before investigation – not of vilified group	1	0.1
Declined before investigation – not on behalf of complainant	3	0.3
Declined after investigation – s 92	62	5.6
Declined after investigation and referred to NCAT	52	4.7
Withdrawn s 92B	166	15.0
Abandoned s 92C	171	15.5
Total	1104	100

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander complaints 2013-14

	Emp	Goods & Serv	Acc	Educ	Clubs	Other	Racial vil	Trans vil	Total	%
Race	18	18	1	3	4	2	0	0	46	61.3
Victimisation	7	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	9	12.0
Disability	4	2	0	1	1	0	0	0	7	9.3
Racial vilification	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	3	4.0
Carer’s responsibilities	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2.7
Sex	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2.7
Sexual harassment	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1.3
Homosexuality	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1.3
Transgender	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	1.3
Transgender vilification	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1.3
Age	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1.3
Other	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1.3
Total	36	24	1	4	5	1	2	1	75	100
%	48.0	32.0	1.3	5.3	6.7	1.3	2.7	1.3	100