Suriname

Organization responsible for the statistics

The statistics are collected, compiled and published by the Arbeidsinspektie (Labour Inspection).

Objectives and users

Not available.

Coverage

Strikes and lockouts

The statistics cover: Working to rule, go-slows and overtime bans are not included.

Minimum threshold Duration of at least one hour.

Economic activities

Public administration and defence are not covered, as these fall outside the competence of the Labour Inspection.

Workers

Workers directly involved only. As well as regular paid employees, including part-time workers, the statistics cover temporary, casual and seasonal workers. 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 temporary work stoppage wilfully effected by a group of workers with a view to enforcing or resisting a demand or expressing a grievance.

Lockout

A temporary work stoppage wilfully effected by one or more employers with a view to enforcing or resisting a demand or expressing a grievance. These are working definitions for statistical purposes.

Methods of measurement

Strikes and lockouts

The basic unit of measurement used to record a strike or lockout is the economic unit (enterprise). Once a strike or lockout is interrupted at the request of De Bemiddelingsraad voor Geheel Suriname, it is counted as one strike or lockout. When a strike or lockout has been terminated, but starts again because of the same dispute, it is considered to be a different strike or lockout. Work stoppages arising from the same case of dispute, occurring simultaneously or at different times in different establishments of the same enterprise are counted as one strike or lockout, if there has been no break between stoppages. Those arising from the same case of dispute, but occurring either simultaneously or at different times in establishments of different enterprises are counted as separate strikes or lockouts.

Economic units involved

The economic unit is the enterprise.

Workers involved

The number of workers involved is the average number of daily absences during the period of the strike or lockout. Part-time workers are counted as individuals on the same basis as full-time workers.

Duration

The duration is measured in workdays from the date the strike or lockout began to the date it terminated in the enterprise involved.

Time not worked

Total time not worked is measured in workhours and workdays, by ascertaining the total amount of time not worked on each day of the strike or lockout, and summing these totals. Time not worked measured in workhours is converted to workdays. The shorter hours worked by part-time workers are taken into account as time not worked is measured in workhours. Overtime is not taken into account.

Classifications

Branch of economic activity

The statistics are classified according to branch of economic activity, using the International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities (ISIC).

Reference period and periodicity

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

Analytical measures

None.

Historical background of the series

Not available.

Documentation

Series available

Not available.

Bibliographic references

Ministerie van Arbeid: Arbeidsstatisticken. Annual report of the Labour Inspection (Arbeidsinspektie).

Data published by the ILO

The number of strikes and lockouts, the number of days not worked, by economic activity.

Confidentiality

Not available.

International standards

Not available.

Methods of data collection

There is no legal obligation to report the occurrence of a strike or lockout. Information is obtained from newspapers, other mas media, and De Bemiddelingsraad voor Geheel Suriname.