Pakistan

Organization responsible for the statistics

The statistics are collected and compiled by the Labour Departments, at the province level, and published by the Ministry of Labour, Manpower and Overseas Pakistanis.

Objectives and users

Not available.

Coverage

Strikes and lockouts

The statisics cover: Political or protest strikes are not covered by the statistics, nor are working to rule, go-slows, overtime bans or sit-ins.

Minimum threshold None.

Economic activities

No particular branches of economic activity or sectors are excluded.

Workers

Workers directly involved and workers indirectly involved. As well as regular paid employees, including part-time workers, the statistics cover temporary, casual and seasonal workers and Badli workmen. Unpaid family workers, workers laid off and workers absent on sick or annual leave are not included.

The data relate to workers covered under the Factories Act, 1934.

Geographic areas

Whole country.

Types of data collected

Concepts and definitions

Strike

Cessation of work by a body of persons employed in any establishment acting in combination or a concerted refusal or refusal under a common understanding of any number of persons who are or have been so employed to continue to work or to accept employment.

Lockout

The closing of a place of employment or part of such place or the suspension, wholly or partly, of work by an employer, or refusal, absolute or conditional, by an employer to continue to employ any number of workmen employed by him, where such closing, suspension or refusal occur in connection with an industrial dispute or is intended for the purpose of compelling workmen employed to accept certain terms and conditions of or affecting employment.

These definitions come from the Industrial Relations Ordinance 1969.

Work stoppage

Common term for any temporary work stoppage effected by either or any party.

Methods of measurement

Strikes and lockouts

The basic unit of measurement used to record a strike or lockout is the case of dispute. The resumption of a strike or lockout that is interrupted but later recommences, 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 in different establishments of the same or different enterprises are counted as a single strike or lockout. Those arising from the same case of dispute, occurring at different times in different establishments of the same or different enterprises are counted separately.

Economic units involved

The economic unit refers to the establishment, defined in the Industrial Relations Ordinance (1969) as any office, firm, industrial unit, undertaking, shop or premises in which workmen are employed for the purpose of carrying on any industry and, except in section 22EE, includes a collective bargaining unit, if any, constituted under that section in any establishment or group of establishments.

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. Part-time workers involved are counted on the basis of full-time equivalents.

Duration

The duration is measured in workdays (a workday being one shift or an eight-hour period) from the date the work stoppage began in the first economic unit involved up to the date it terminated in the last one.

Time not worked

Total time not worked is measured in workdays (a workday being one shift or an eight-hour period) as the sum of the time not worked by each worker involved. Time not worked is measured for all workers involved, directly or indirectly. The shorter working hours of part-time workers are taken into account, but not overtime.

Classifications

Branch of economic activity

The data are classified by branch of economic activity according to the ISIC classification.

Analytical measures

None.

Reference period and periodicity

The statistics are compiled and published for periods of a month and a year. They refer to strikes and lockouts beginning during the particular reference period plus those continuing from the previous period.

Historical background of the series

Not available.

Documentation

Series available

Not available.

Bibliographic references

Ministry of Labour, Manpower and Overseas Pakistanis: Pakistan Labour Gazette (bi-annual).

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 are legally required to report the occurrence of a strike or lockout to the Labour Departments of the provinces. A standard form is used for this purpose. The information to be reported includes: