Stoppages of Work caused by Industrial Disputes
Stoppages of Work caused by Industrial Disputes
| Post date: Thu, May 5, 2016 | | Category: Labour Market | |
Kenya has occasionally experienced number of strikes in various sectors of the economy. As a consequence, economic advancement has been slowed due to the man-hours lost. In this week’s analysis, we provide a seven-year trend of the Man-Days Lost in the private sector as well as the public sector.
Source: KNBS| Statistical Abstract
The chart above shows the Man-Days Lost due to industrial disputes which culminated into strikes by the workers. The bars and figures in green represent values for the public sector while those in blue represent values for the private sector. Zero, “0”, values indicate that there was no recorded Man-Days Loss for that given year.
Man – Days Lost is the time in days for which the workers or labour was out of work due to industrial disputes. These figures are computed from the number of days with the number of affected employees.
From the Chart, it is revealed that 2013 had the highest recorded loss of man-days at 19,469,156 days in the public sector and 1,326,678 days in the private sector. The many lost days in 2013 are as a result of a large number of workers that were involved in the strike (524,134), this is shown in the Table below. The public servants that were involved in the strike in 2013 included teachers and doctors.
Number of strikes and number of workers involved, 2010-2014 (both public & private sector)
Out of the seven years: 2008 to 2014, there have been 3 years in which loss of man-days have been recorded in the public sector while in the private sector all the 7 years have recoded loss of man-days. This implies that the frequency of strikes in the public sector are less compared to the private sector.
- The frequency of occurrence of strikes, translates to at least 4 strikes in the public sector and at least 10 strikes in the private sector in a span of 10 years.
- The total number of Man-Days Lost from 2008 to 2014 are 19,683,717 for the public sector and 1,586,326 for the private sector.
- Dividing the cumulative number of Man-Days Lost from 2008 to 2014 by the number of years on which the strike occurred, i.e. 3 and 7 for the public and private sector respectively, it is revealed that the average number of Man-Days Lost per year are 6,561,239 and 226,618 for the public sector and private sector respectively.
- Going by the average number of Man-Days Lost per year, it is revealed that the intensity of the strikes in the public sector is 29 times more than the private sector.
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