Burkina Faso
Organization responsible for the statistics
The statistics are collected and compiled by the Direction
générale du Travail et de la Sécurité sociale of the Ministère de
l'Emploi, du Travail et de la Sécurité sociale. They are not
published.
Objectives and users
Not available.
Coverage
Strikes and lockouts
The statistics cover:
- constitutional or official strikes
- unofficial strikes
- sympathetic or solidarity strikes
- general strikes
- lockouts
- revolving or rotating strikes
- working to rule
- go-slows
- overtime bans
- sit-ins
Political or protest strikes are not included.
Minimum threshold:
None.
Economic activities
No particular branches of economic activity are excluded.
Workers
Workers directly involved and workers indirectly involved. In
addition to regular paid employees, including part-time workers,
the statistics cover temporary, casual and seasonal workers.
Workers laid off, or absent on sick leave, annual leave or absent
for any other reasons, as well as unpaid family workers, are not
covered.
No particular occupational groups are excluded.
Geographic areas
Whole country.
Types of data collected
- number of strikes and lockouts
- number of economic units involved
- number of workers involved
- duration
- time not worked
- branch of economic activity
- subject of dispute
- outcome of dispute
- method of settlement
- occupational groups involved
Concepts and definitions
Strike
A concerted work stoppage initiated by workers.
Lockout
A work stoppage or closure of the enterprise initiated by the
employer.
Collective labour dispute
A work stoppage with a view to enforcing demands.
Methods of measurement
Strikes and lockouts
The basic unit of measure used to record a strike or lockout is
the case of dispute in an economic unit.
Economic units involved
The economic unit may be the establishment, enterprise or
workplace.
Workers involved
The number of workers involved may be measured in several ways:
as the total number of workers involved at any time during the
action, whether the involvement was for the full duration or only
part of it, as the highest number of workers involved at any one
time, or as the total employment in the economic units involved.
Part-time workers are counted as individuals on the same basis as
full-time workers.
Duration
The duration is measured in workdays from the date the action
began in the first economic unit involved to the date it
terminated in the last one.
Time not worked
Time not worked is measured in workdays by ascertaining the total
time not worked on each day of the strike or lockout, and summing
these totals. The shorter working hours of part-time workers are
taken into account, but not overtime.
Classifications
Branch of economic activity
The statistics are classified according to branch of economic
activity.
Reference period and periodicity
The statistics are compiled for periods of one month. They
relate to strikes and lockouts beginning during the reference
period, as well as those continuing from the previous period.
Analytical measures
None.
Historical background of the series
Not available.
Documentation
Series available
Not available.
Bibliographic references
None.
Data published by the ILO
The number of strikes and lockouts, the number of workers
involved and the number of days not worked.
Confidentiality
Not available.
International standards
Not available.
Methods of data collection
There is a legal obligation to report the occurrence of a strike
or lockout; a standard form is used for this purpose.