Haiti
Organization responsible for the statistics
The statistics are collected by the Service de conciliation et
d'arbitrage, and are compiled and published by the Service
statistique of the Ministère des Affaires sociales.
Objectives and users
Not available.
Coverage
Strikes and lockouts
- constitutional or official strikes
- sympathetic strikes
- political or protest strikes
- general strikes
- work stoppages initiated by employers
Unofficial strikes, rotating or revolving strikes, working to
rule, go-slows, overtime bans and sit-ins are not included.
Minimum threshold
duration of at least 48 hours.
Economic activities
No particular branches of economic activity or sectors 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, and unpaid family
workers. Also included are workers laid off, workers absent on
sick or annual leave, or absent for any other reason.
No particular occupational groups are excluded from the
statistics.
Geogrpahic 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
- method of settlement
- amount of wages lost
- nature of disputes
- characteristics of the plaintiffs (sex, age group,
occupation, etc.)
Concepts and definitions
Labour dispute
Any dispute between employers and employees concerning
conditions of work.
Strike
A concerted work stoppage carried out within an establishment by
a group of workers with a view to enforcing demands presented to
their employers which are the prerequisite for a return to work.
Lockout
A temporary work stoppage effected by one or more employers with
a view to enforcing or resisting a demand or expressing a
protest.
These definitions come from the Code du Travail of the
Ministère des Affaires sociales.
Methods of measurement
Strikes and lockouts
The basic unit of measurement used to record a strike is the case
of dispute and the economic unit (the establishment).
A strike interrupted but later resumed, still due to the same
case of dispute, is counted as a continuation of the same strike,
if the interruption does not exceed a defined period of time.
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 separately in each establishment.
Economic units involved
The economic unit is the establishment, defined as the economic
entity with a single production unit in a single location, which
may be a subsidiary of a firm or enterprise. The number of
economic units involved is not measured with respect to general
strikes.
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.
Part-time workers are counted as individuals on the same basis as
full-time workers.
Duration
The duration is measured in terms of calendar days from the date
on which the strike or lockout began up to the date on which it
terminated in the economic unit concerned.
Time not worked
Total time not worked is measured by ascertaining the total
amount of time not worked on each day of the strike, and summing
these totals, or as the product of the number of workers involved
and the duration.
The shorter working hours of part-time workers are taken into
account in the estimate of time not worked. Overtime is not
included.
Classifications
Cause of dispute
- wages
- dismissal
- notice
- bonuses
- leave
- overtime
- occupational accident
- various benefits
- other
Outcome of dispute
- workers' demands entirely accepted
- workers' demands partially accepted
- workers' demands rejected
- employers' demands entirely accepted
- employers' demands partially accepted
- employers' demands rejected
- indeterminate result
Branch of economic activity
All types of strikes are classified using the International
Standard Industrial Classification (ISIC).
Occupational group
The data are classified according to the International
Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO), but these are not
published.
Other
- method of settlement
- number of economic units involved
- number of workers involved
- duration
- time not worked
- type of dispute
- region
Reference period and periodicity
The statistics are compiled and published for periods of a year.
Information collected refers to strikes and lockouts beginning
during the particular reference period only.
Analytical measures
None.
Historical background of the series
Not available.
Documentation
Series available
Not available.
Bibliographic references
Institut haïtien de statistique et d'information: Bulletin
annuel.
Ministère des Affaires sociales: Annuaire statistique.
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
or lockout to the Service de conciliation et d'arbitrage of the
Ministère des Affaires Sociales.
A standard form is used to report the following types of data:
region, name of plaintiff, employment status, age, sex,
marital status, occupation, wage, economic activity, date of
dispute, matter in dispute, nature of dispute, extent of dispute,
duration of dispute, outcome of dispute, method of settlement of
dispute, number of workers involved, form of dispute, type of
dispute, categories of workers involved, type of association,
number of days not worked, amount of wages lost, amount paid to
the plaintiff, number of years of service, date of inscription.