Notice period australia: Termination Dispute Statistics
The median published figure in the Termination Dispute Statistics is 4.55 percent across 6 figures from 3 sources' own pages (range 1.80 to 7.70 percent), read 26 September 2026.
3 of the 7 named sources read in full publish a figure; 4 publish none, read 26 September 2026.
The median is unchanged since 25 September 2026 (was 4.55 percent across 6).
By measure
| Breakdown | Median | Range | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| measure job-mobility-rate | 7.2 % | 7.2 to 7.7 % | 3 |
| measure retrenchment-rate | 1.8 % | 1.8 to 1.9 % | 3 |
Every figure, with its source
One row per source: the figure the source's own page publishes, the page, and the day it was read. A figure that is not on a page we read is not on this one.
| Source | Figure | Breakdown | Read |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABS: Job Mobility, February 2025 | 7.7 % | job-mobility-rate | 2026-09-12 |
| ABS: Jobs topic page (latest job mobility release) | 7.2 % | job-mobility-rate | 2026-09-12 |
| ABS: Employment and unemployment | 7.2 % | job-mobility-rate | 2026-09-12 |
| ABS: Job Mobility, February 2025 | 1.9 % | retrenchment-rate | 2026-09-12 |
| ABS: Jobs topic page (latest job mobility release) | 1.8 % | retrenchment-rate | 2026-09-12 |
| ABS: Employment and unemployment | 1.8 % | retrenchment-rate | 2026-09-12 |
The sentence each figure was read from (6)
- ABS: Job Mobility, February 2025, read 2026-09-12:
the job mobility rate decreased to 7.7%
- ABS: Jobs topic page (latest job mobility release), read 2026-09-12:
the job mobility rate decreased to 7.2%
- ABS: Employment and unemployment, read 2026-09-12:
the job mobility rate was 7.2%, a decrease from February 2025 (7.7%)
- ABS: Job Mobility, February 2025, read 2026-09-12:
The annual retrenchment rate was 1.9%
- ABS: Jobs topic page (latest job mobility release), read 2026-09-12:
The annual retrenchment rate was 1.8%
- ABS: Employment and unemployment, read 2026-09-12:
the annual retrenchment rate was 1.8%, a decrease from 1.9% in February 2025
Read in full, publishes no figure
4 named sources were read in full on the dates shown and print no usable figure. They are counted, never filled in.
- Fair Work Commission: annual reports, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Fair Work Commission: Annual Report 2024-25 published, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Fair Work Commission: reporting and publications, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- fwc.gov.au, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
Methodology
Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through the estate's fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2).
3 of the 7 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 4 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 0 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere.
The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source in % (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 30 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded.
Derivation as chartered: the Commission's lodgment counts by application type per financial year, joined to the ABS's count of people who left or lost a job and were retrenched in the same period, giving the derived figure neither body publishes: the DISPUTE RATE - applications per thousand separations - and its direction over years, beside the share of unfair dismissal applications resolved at conciliation.
It is the number that tells a reader whether the notice they were given is worth arguing about, which is exactly what the buyer is deciding.
30 candidate sentences on these pages were refused by a reviewer; each refusal and its reason is recorded in the review ledger.
Sources (7)
- Fair Work Commission: annual reports (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Fair Work Commission: Annual Report 2024-25 published (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Fair Work Commission: reporting and publications (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- ABS: Job Mobility, February 2025 (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- ABS: Jobs topic page (latest job mobility release) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- ABS: Employment and unemployment (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- fwc.gov.au (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
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The median published figure in the Termination Dispute Statistics is 4.55 percent across 6 figures from 3 sources' own pages (range 1.80 to 7.70 percent), read 26 September 2026.
3 of the 7 named sources read in full publish a figure; 4 publish none, read 26 September 2026.
Termination Dispute Statistics, measure job-mobility-rate: median 7.20 percent across 3 sources, read 26 September 2026.
Termination Dispute Statistics, measure retrenchment-rate: median 1.80 percent across 3 sources, read 26 September 2026.
The median is unchanged since 25 September 2026 (was 4.55 percent across 6).
Cite as: "noticeperiodaustralia.com Termination Dispute Statistics", updated 2026-09-26, https://noticeperiodaustralia.com/datasets/termination-dispute-statistics/.
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