Ecuador

Organization responsible for the statistics

The statistics are collected, compiled and published by the Departamento de Estadísticas of the Dirección de Planificación, Ministerio de Trabajo y Recursos Humanos.

Objectives and users

Not available.

Coverage

Strikes and lockouts

The statistics cover: Data on general strikes are not included in the statistics for total strikes and lockouts.

Political or protest strikes, rotating or revolving strikes, go-slows and overtime bans are not included in the statistics

Minimum threshold Duration of at least eight hours.

Economic activities

No particular branches of economic activity or sectors are excluded.

Workers

Workers directly involved and workers indirectly involved. As well as regular paid employees, the statistics cover seasonal workers and trainees and workers absent on sick, annual or other temporary authorised leave or on training courses, but not workers laid off, part-time workers, temporary or casual workers or unpaid family workers.

Only workers covered by the Labour Code are included.

Geographic areas

Whole country.

Types of data collected

Concepts and definitions

Strike

Definition not available.

Lockout (paro)

Definition not available.

Methods of measurement

Strikes and lockouts

The basic unit of measurement used to record a strike or lockout is the case of dispute in an economic unit. The continuation, still due to the same labour dispute, of a strike or lockout that was interrupted, is considered to be the same strike or lockout, but only if the interruption lasts less than one year.

Work stoppages arising from the same case of dispute but occurring in different economic units, whether at the same or at different times, are treated as separate strikes or lockouts.

Economic units involved

The economic unit is the establishment: the unit producing the most homogeneous goods or services, generally at a single physical location, which can provide data on the human and material resources used for production. The number of economic units involved is not counted with respect to work stoppages in transport or education.

Workers involved

The number of workers involved is the maximum number of workers involved at any one time during the strike or lockout.

Duration

The duration is measured in workdays from the date the action began in the economic unit involved up to the date it terminated in that unit.

Time not worked

Total time not worked is measured in workdays as the sum of the total time not worked on each day of the action. It is measured for all workers involved, whether directly or indirectly. Overtime is not taken into account.

Classifications

Cause of dispute

Method of settlement

Branch of economic activity

The data are classified by branch of economic activity, according to the International Standard Industrial Classification (ISIC). Information about a general strike covering several industries is classified according to the activity with the largest number of workers.

Duration

(in workdays)

Other

Reference period and periodicity

The statistics are compiled and published for periods of a month and a calendar year. They refer only to strikes and lockouts beginning during the particular reference period.

Analytical measures

The rate of change is calculated with respect to the previous period.

Historical background of the series

Not available.

Documentation

Series available

Not available.

Bibliographic references

Ministerio de Trabajo y Recursos Humano: Boletín Estadístico No. 71 (latest issue);

Idem: Conflictos colectivos, huelgas, paros y liquidaciones de negocios (annual).

Data published by the ILO

The ILO on the number of strikes and lockouts, the number of workers involved and the number of days not worked, by economic activity.

Confidentiality

International standards

Not available.

Methods of data collection

There is a legal obligation to report the occurrence of a strike or lockout, which applies to the enterprise committees, special committees or trade unions. The report is made to the Inspectoría del Trabajo of the Ministerio de Trabajo y Recursos Humanos and the police, and covers the causes of the action and the location of the enterprise (or its direction). A standard form is not used for this purpose. Supplementary information is also obtained from newspapers.