Peru

Organization responsible for the statistics

The Dirección General de Trabajo of the Ministerio de Trabajo y Promoción Social collects the statistics, which are compiled by the Dirección General de Planificación y Presupuesto and the Dirección de Estadística of the same ministry, and published by the Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática (INEI) and the ministry.

Objectives and users

Not available.

Coverage

Strikes and lockouts

The statistics cover: Lockouts, go-slows, overtime bans, sit-ins and rotating or revolving strikes are not included.

Information on lockouts is collected in accordance with different labour legislation.

Minimum threshold None.

Economic activities

Public administration, the armed forces and the police are not included, as the Ministerio de Trabajo y Promoción Social only collects statistics of strikes in the private sector which are covered by labour legislation.

Workers

Workers directly involved and workers indirectly involved. The statistics only cover full-time, regular paid employees. Temporary, casual and seasonal workers, unpaid family workers, workers laid off, 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 temporary work stoppage by one or more groups of workers as provided for in the labour legislation.

Lockout

A temporary work stoppage effected by the employer.

These definitions come from labour relations laws.

Methods of measurement

Strikes and lockouts

The basic unit used to register a strike is the case of dispute. The continuation of a strike that is interrupted and later resumes, still due to the same case of dispute, is considered to be a new strike. Work stoppages due to the same case of dispute, occurring simultaneously or at different times in different establishments of the same enterprise are treated as the same strike. Those resulting from the same case of dispute, but occurring in establishments of different enterprises, simultaneously or at different times, are counted as separate strikes.

Workers involved

The number of workers involved is the maximum number of workers that took part in a strike, whether for the whole duration or only part of it.

Duration

The duration is measured in workdays, from the date the strike began in the first economic unit involved to the date it terminated in the last one.

Time not worked

Total time not worked, in work hours, is the product of the number of workers involved and the duration. It is measured for all workers involved, whether directly or indirectly, but not separately. Overtime hours are not taken into account.

Classifications

Cause of dispute

Branch of economic activity

The data are classified by branch of economic activity according to the International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities (ISIC). There is no method for classifying general strikes by economic activity.

Reference period and periodicity

The statistics are compiled for periods of a month and a year, and are published for periods of one year. The number of strikes and the number of workers involved refer to strikes beginning during the particular reference period. The amount of time not work relates to strikes beginning during the reference period as well as those continuing from the previous period.

Analytical measures

None.

Historical background of the series

Not available.

Documentation

Series available

Not available.

Bibliographic references

Ministerio de Trabajo y Promoción Social y Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informatica (INEI): Compendido Estadístico (annual).

Data published by the ILO

The number of strikes, 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 give notice of a strike. Trade unions and employers are required to supply the Dirección General de Trabajo del Ministerio de Trabajo y Promoción Social with information on the time of the strike, the name of the trade union, the starting date, the cause and the number of workers involved. There is no standard form for supplying this information. Data are also obtained from trade unions, by post.