Zimbabwe
Organization responsible for the statistics
The statistics are collected and compiled by the Labour Relations
Department of the Ministry of Labour.
Objectives and users
Not available.
Coverage
Strikes and lockouts
The statistics cover:
- constitutional or official strikes
- unofficial strikes
- general strikes
- work stoppages initiated by employers
- rotating or revolving strikes
- sit-ins
Sympathetic strikes, and political or protest strikes are not
included in the statistics, nor are working to rule, go-slows or
overtime bans.
Minimum threshold
None.
Economic activities
No particular branches of economic activity or sectors are
excluded.
Workers
Workers directly involved and workers indirectly involved. The
data refer to regular paid employees, and include temporary,
casual and seasonal workers. Unpaid family workers are not
included.
No particular occupational groups are excluded.
Geographic areas
Whole country.
Types of data collected
- number of strikes and lockouts
- number of workers involved
- time not worked
- matter in dispute
- cause of dispute
- outcome of dispute
- method of settlement
Concepts and definitions
Collective job action
An industrial action calculated to persuade or cause a party
to an employment relationship to accede to a demand related to
employment, including a strike, boycott, lock-out, sit-in or
sit-out and other such concerted action.
This definition comes from the Labour Relations Act No. 16 of
1985.
Methods of measurement
Strikes and lockouts
Information not available.
Workers involved
Information not available.
Time not worked
Total time not worked is measured in terms of workhours by
ascertaining the total amount of time not worked on each day of
the strike or lockout, and summing these totals. Time not worked
is also measured for workers indirectly involved, but not
separately.
Classifications
None.
Reference period and periodicity
The statistics are compiled for periods of a month, and refer to
strikes or 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
None.
Data published by the ILO
The number of strikes and lockouts, the number of workers involved and the num,ber
of days not worked, by economic activity.
Confidentiality
Not available.
International standards
Not available.
Methods of data collection
There is a legal obligation applying to the aggrieved party,
whether the employer or trade union, to report the occurrence of
a strike to the Ministry of Labour, supplying information on the
causes of the dispute.