Gabon
Organization responsible for the statistics
The statistics are collected by the Inspection du Travail and
compiled by the Ministère du Travail.
Objectives and users
Not available.
Coverage
Strikes and lockouts
The statistics cover:
- constitutional or official strikes
- unofficial strikes
- sympathetic strikes
- political or protest strikes
- general strikes
- work stoppages initiated by employers
- rotating or revolving strikes
Data on lockouts are collected and compiled separately.
A strike always takes the form of a work stoppage.
Sit-ins, working to rule, go-slows and overtime bans are not
current practices in Gabon.
Minimum threshold
None.
Economic activities
The civil service is not covered by the statistics.
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.
Unpaid family workers, workers laid off or workers absent on sick
or annual leave or absent for any other reason are not included.
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
- matter in dispute
- outcome of dispute
- method of settlement (conciliation, mediation or arbitration)
- amount of wages lost
- amount of income lost by the enterprise
Concepts and definitions
Collective labour dispute (conflit collectif du travail)
Any dispute between an employer and all or a group of his
employees, relating to their rights or interests.
Strike
A concerted work stoppage by a group of employees, as a means of
defending their economic and social rights and interests.
Lockout
There is no definition as such, but the legislation indicates
that a preventive or defensive lockout against a strike is
illegal, and that the hours or days not worked as a result must
be remunerated.
The law distinguishes between a collective labour dispute, a
strike and a lockout. These terms and their definitions are
currently being examined by the Assemblée nationale within the
context of the draft Labour Code.
Methods of measurement
Strikes and lockouts
The basic unit of measurement used to record a strike or lockout
is the economic unit (the establishment or enterprise). The
continuation of a strike or lockout that is interrupted but later
resumes, still due to the same case of dispute, is counted as a
new strike or lockout.
Work stoppages arising from the same case of dispute,
occurring simultaneously or at different times, in different
establishments of the same enterprise or in establishments of
different enterprises are counted as a separate strike or lockout
for each establishment involved.
Economic units involved
The economic unit is the establishment or enterprise. An
establishment is a unit belonging to an enterprise, without a
separate legal identity or financial autonomy. An enterprise is
an economic production unit with a separate legal identity and
financial autonomy.
Workers involved
The number of workers involved is the maximum number of workers
that took part in the work stoppage, even if some workers
participated for only part of the duration. Part-time workers
are counted as individuals on the same basis as full-time
workers.
Duration
The duration is measured in workhours, from the time the action
began to the time it terminated in the establishment involved.
Time not worked
Total time not worked, measured in work hours, is the product of
the number of workers involved and the duration. Time not worked
is measured for all workers involved, whether directly or
indirectly, but not separately. The shorter working hours of
part-time workers are taken into account, as is overtime, because
time not worked is measured in work hours.
Classifications
Cause of dispute
- wage demands
- payment of various bonuses
- means of transport
- etc.
Method of settlement
- conciliated by the services of the Ministère du Travail
- mediated
- submitted to the Conseil d'Arbitrage
- referred to the Chambre judiciaire of the Cour Suprème
Reference period and periodicity
The statistics are compiled for periods of a quarter and a year.
They refer only to strikes and lockouts 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
None.
Confidentiality
Not available.
International standards
Not available.
Methods of data collection
There is a legal obligation applying to both parties to the
dispute to report the occurrence of a dispute to the Inspection
du Travail, indicating:
- name and address of the establishment
- name of the manager or director of the establishment
- industry
- total employment
- number of workers involved in the action
- date that the action began
- cause
- date that the action ended
- number of hours not worked
- financial impact (wages lost, income lost to the
establishment)
This information is registered by the labour inspector during the
conciliation process.