Algeria

Organization responsible for the statistics

The statistics are collected and compiled by the Inspection générale du travail and the Ministère du Travail et des Affaires sociales. They are not published.

Objectives and users

Not available.

Coverage

Strikes and lockouts

The statistics cover: Overtime bans, go-slows, rotating or revolving strikes and lockouts are not included.

Minimum threshold Duration of at least one day and with a total of at least ten days not worked.

Economic activities

No particular branches of economic activity are excluded.

Workers

Workers directly involved only. 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 other reasons, and unpaid family workers are not included.

No particular occupational groups are excluded.

Geographic areas

Whole country.

Types of data collected

Concepts and definitions

Strike

A work stoppage with a view to expressing demands.

Collective labour dispute (conflit collectif de travail)

All disputes between workers and their employers, concerning social-labour relations and general working conditions, which are not settled during the regular meetings provided for in articles 4 and 5 of the law 90-02 of 6.2.90 regarding the prevention and settlement of collective labour disputes and the right to strike (la loi 90-02 du 6.2.90 relative à la prévention et au règlement des conflits collectifs de travail et à l'exercice du droit de grève).

These definitions come from the labour legislation.

Methods of measurement

Strikes and lockouts

The basic unit of measurement used to record a strike is the case of dispute in one workplace. A strike which is interrupted and later resumes, still due to the same case of dispute, is treated as a new strike when it resumes.

Work stoppages due to the same case of dispute which occur in different workplaces or at different times in the same workplace are treated as different strikes.

Workers involved

The number of workers involved is the average number of daily absences during the period of the strike. 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 strike began in the workplace to the date it terminated without interruption in that workplace.

Time not worked

Time not worked is measured in workdays, by ascertaining the total amount of time not worked on each day of the strike, and summing these totals. The shorter working hours of part-time workers and overtime are not taken into account in the estimate.

Classifications

Branch of economic activity

The statistics are classified according to the following branches:

Other

Reference period and periodicity

The statistics are compiled for periods of a month, a quarter, a semester and a year. They relate only to strikes beginning during the particular reference 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, by economic activity.

Confidentiality

Not available.

International standards

Not available.

Methods of data collection

There is a legal obligation to report the occurrence of a strike. The group of workers involved is required to give notice of a strike to the employer and to the Inspection du Travail of the area. No standard forms are used for this.