Guinea

Organization responsible for the statistics

The statistics are collected and compiled by the Inspection du Travail, Direction générale du Travail et des Lois sociales, Ministère des Affaires sociales et de l'Emploi.

Objectives and users

Not available.

Coverage

Strikes and lockouts

The statistics cover: Unofficial strikes are not included.

Minimum threshold None.

Economic activities

No particular branches of economic activity or sectors are excluded.

Workers

Workers directly involved and workers indirectly involved. The statistics cover regular paid employees including part-time workers. Temporary, casual and seasonal workers and unpaid family workers, workers laid off and 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

Concepts and definitions

Strike

A complete and collective work stoppage effected by employees in support of demands not having been satisfied.

Lockout

The closure of all or part of an enterprise or establishment decided by the employer in the case of a strike by employees in his or her enterprise.

These definitions come from article 329 (strike) and article 338 (lockout) of the Code du Travail.

Methods of measurement

Strikes and lockouts

The basic unit of measurement used to record a strike or lockout is the case of dispute and the economic unit (establishment). The continuation of a strike or lockout that is interrupted but later resumes, still due to the same case of dispute, is treated as the same strike or lockout, but only if the period of interruption does not exceed three months. Simultaneous work stoppages in different establishments of the same enterprise, due to the same case of dispute, are counted as one strike or lockout. Work stoppages occurring in different establishments of the same enterprise at different times, due to the same case of dispute, are counted as different strikes or lockouts. Those in establishments of different enterprises, resulting from the same case of dispute, occurring either simultaneously or at different times, are also counted as separate strikes or lockouts.

Economic units involved

The economic unit can be the establishment, firm, enterprise and workplace. The enterprise is defined (Code du Travail, Art. 119) as any organization of whatever legal status (company, association, union, individual property) having a production or distribution activity or providing services. An enterprise may comprise several establishments. The establishment is a group of persons regularly working together in one workplace under the direction of a same authority.

Workers involved

The number of workers involved is 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 terms of workdays.

Time not worked

Total time not worked is measured in workdays as 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 by calculating the number of hours not worked. Overtime is not taken into account.

Classifications

Method of settlement

Outcome of dispute

Branch of economic activity

The statistics are classified according to the International Standard Industrial Classification (ISIC).

Number of workers involved

Reference period and periodicity

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

Analytical measures

(Currently under examination.)

Historical background of the series

Not available.

Documentation

Series available

Not available.

Bibliogrpahic references

None.

Data published by the ILO

The number of strikes and lockouts and the number of workers involved, by economic activity.

Confidentiality

Not available.

International standards

Not available.

Methods of data collection

There is a legal obligation on the part of the workers' organization concerned to give the Labour Inspectorate notice of a strike (Article 330 of the Code du Travail). The strike notice should include the cause of the strike and the demands. There is no standard form for this purpose.