Senegal

Organization responsible for the statistics

The information is collected by the Service des Statistiques du Travail of the Ministère du Travail.

Objectives and users

Not available.

Coverage

Strikes and lockouts

The statistics cover: General strikes are not included.

Minimum threshold None.

Economic activities

No particular branches of economic activity are excluded.

Workers

Workers directly involved only. In addition to regular employees, including part-time workers, the statistics cover temporary, casual and seasonal workers. Unpaid family workers are not included, nor are workers absent from the workplace for any reason (sick leave, annual leave, etc.) or workers laid off.

No particular occupational groups are excluded.

Geographic areas

Whole country.

Types of data collected

Concepts and definitions

Strike

A concerted and collective temporary work stoppage by employees of an enteprise aimed at enforcing work-related demands.

Lockout

A temporary work stoppage provoked by one or more employers, aimed at refusing all or one group of their workers access to the enterprise as a result of a dispute.

These definitions are drawn from Droit du Travail sénégalais (by J.I. Sayegh), adapted by the Labour Inspectorate.

Methods of measurement

Strikes and lockouts

The basic unit of measurement used to record a strike or lockout is the case of dispute or the economic unit. The continuation of a strike or lockout that is interrupted but later resumes, still due to the same case of dispute, is counted the same strike or lockout.

Work stoppages arising from the same case of dispute, occurring simultaneously in different establishments or workplaces of the same enterprise, or in establishments of different enterprises, are treated as a single strike or lockout. Those resulting from the same case of dispute, occurring at different times in different establishments or workplaces of the same enterprise or in establishments of different enterprises, are considered to be separate strikes or lockouts.

Economic units involved

The economic unit is the establishment, defined as an economic unit with a legal status, comprising a group of persons working together at a fixed location for remuneration, under the direction and authority of another person known as the employer, who may be an individual or a group, public or private.

Workers involved

There is no established method for calculating the number of workers involved; however, studies may be made to estimate the number of workers involved, i.e. those who took part in the work stoppage. Part-time workers are counted as individuals on the same basis as full-time workers.

Duration

The duration is measured in workhours, from the time the strike or lockout began in the first economic unit involved to the time it ended in the last one.

Time not worked

The total amount of time not worked as a result of a strike or lockout is measured in workdays, by ascertaining the total amount of time not worked on each day of the stoppage, and summing these totals. The shorter working hours of part-time workers is not taken into account. Authorised overtime is taken into consideration.

Classifications

Cause of dispute

Outcome of dispute

Demands:

Method of settlement

Branch of economic activity

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

Reference period and periodicity

The statistics are compiled for periods of one year. They refer to strikes and lockouts in progress during the particular reference period.

Analytical measures

None.

Historical background of the series

Not available.

Documentation

Series available

Not available.

Bibliographic references

The statistics are published in the annual report on labour statistics.

Data published by the ILO

The number of strikes 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 plaintiff, who may be the employer, workers or their organizations, to give notice of a strike or lockout. They are required to notify the Labour Inspectorate, if the dispute falls within the competence of a single inspectorate, or the Ministère du Travail if the dispute is covered by more than one inspectorate. The notice should include the subject of the dispute and the position of each party (employers-workers), the different attempts at conciliation, and the date, duration and form of the proposed strike or lockout.

Despite this legal obligation, it sometimes happens than one of the parties (employer or workers) does not follow this procedure. In such cases, the Labour Inspectorate is generally informed by the other party.