Section 46.  Strike or lockout procedures.

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A party to a dispute intending to strike or lock out, shall give notice in writing to the other party and the Principal Secretary responsible for labour at least seven days before taking such action.

[Malawi, Labour Relations Act, 1996]

Failure to reach settlement by conciliation

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(4) The strike or lockout may, subject to section 72, commence ten days following the decision to do so and may continue for an indefinite period during which the dispute remains unresolved.

[Zambia, Industrial and Labour Relations Act, 1993 (No. 27 of 1993), Section 78, as amended by the Industrial and Labour Relations (Amendment) Act, 1997 (No. 30 of 1997)]

Subject to the provisions of subsection [] no employees or trade union shall resort to collective job action unless five days' written notice of intent to resort to such action, specifying the grounds for the intended collective job action, has been given to the party against whom the collective job action is to be taken.

[ILO, 1993, Proposals for a Draft Labour Act (Zimbabwe), Revised Preliminary Draft, Section 95(2)]

Sect. 82. 2. A strike shall be preceded by a notice period allowing for negotiations between the parties.

Notice of strike action shall be given by the representatives of the employees to the direction of the enterprise, establishment or employers’ organizations in the branch of activity. Its duration shall be six working days.

Any strike initiated without complying with the period of notice indicated in the first subsection shall be prohibited.

Sect. 82. 3. To be valid, the notice of strike action shall be notified in writing to the competent authority of the labour administration. Such notice shall include the reasons and the claims made by the employees submitting the notice of strike action, who may be assisted by trade union organizations.

As soon as the notice of strike action is notified to the competent authority, the latter shall take the initiative of negotiating with the parties to the dispute.

[Côte d'Ivoire, Labour Code, 1995]

Section 407. To be declared strike the workers will notify in writing to the Secretariat of State of Labor an exposition of the following elements:
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A strike cannot be declared until at least ten days after the date of exposition that the trade union representatives have notified the Labor Secretary. During the subsequent forty-eight hours after the receipt of the notification, the Secretary will forward a copy of it to the employing party.

[Dominican Republic, Labour Code, 1992]