Ghana

Organization responsible for the statistics

The statistics are collected, compiled and published by the Labour Department.

Objectives and users

Not available.

Coverage

Strikes and lockouts

The statistics cover: Working to rule, go-slows, overtime bans and sit-ins are not included in the statistics.

Minimum threshold None.

Economic activities

No particular branches of economic activity or sectors are excluded.

Workers

Workers directly involved only. As well as regular paid employees, the statistics cover temporary, casual and seasonal workers. Part-time workers are not common in Ghana and as such are not covered by the statistics. Unpaid family workers and apprentices are not included, nor are workers laid off, and workers absent on sick or annual leave or leave without pay.

No particular occupational groups are excluded from the statistics.

Geographic areas

Whole country.

Types of data collected

Concepts and definitions

Strike

The act of any number of employees, who are or have been in employment of the same employer or of different employers, of discontinuing that employment, whether wholly or partially, to compel or induce the employer to agree to terms of employment or comply with any demands made by the employees.

Lockout

An employer closing his place of business, whether wholly or partially, to compel his employees to agree to terms of employment.

The definitions come from the Industrial Relations Act 1965 (Act 299).

Methods of measurement

Strikes and lockouts

The basic unit of measurement used to record a strike or lockout can be the economic unit (local workplace) or the case of dispute; the economic unit takes precedence.

A strike or lockout that is interrupted but later resumed, still due to the same case of dispute, is counted as a new action.

Economic units involved

The economic unit is the local workplace, defined as the single plant of an establishment.

Workers involved

The number of workers involved is counted as the maximum number of workers that took part during the course of the stoppage, even if some workers participated for only part of the duration.

Duration

The duration is measured in workdays from the date the strike or lockout began to the date it terminated at the workplace concerned.

Time not worked

Total time not worked is measured in workdays as the product of the number of workers involved and the duration. Overtime is not taken into account.

Classifications

Cause of dispute

Method of settlement

Branch of economic activity

Data are classified by branch of economic activity using the International Standard Industrial Classification (ISIC).

Reference period and periodicity

Statistics are compiled and published for periods of a year. Information collected refers to strikes and lockouts occurring during a particular reference period.

Analytical measures

None.

Historical background of the series

Not available.

Documentation

Series available

Not available.

Bibliographic references

Labour Department: Labourscope (departmental newsletter), (annual);

Idem: Annual Report.

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

Employers normally report strike action to the Labour Department which in turn is required to report the occurrence of a strike to the Ministry responsible for labour affairs, providing the following details: