According to the ESA 2010 employed covers all persons - both employees and self-employed, engaged in some productive activity that falls within the production boundary of the system. Employees are defined as all persons who, by the agreement, work for another resident institutional unit and receive remuneration as a compensation of employees. The following categories are included: · persons engaged by an employer under a contract of employment; · civil servants and other government employees whose terms and conditions of employment are laid down by public law; · the armed forces, consisting of those who have enlisted for both long and short engagements and also conscripts; · owners of corporations and quasicorporations if they work in these corporations; · students who have a formal commitment whereby they contribute some of their own labor as an input into an enterprise?s process of production in return for remuneration and (or) education services; · outworkers if there is an explicit agreement that the outworker is remunerated on the basis of the work done that is, the amount of labor which is contributed as an input into some process of production; · disabled workers, provided the formal or informal relationship of employer to employee exists; · persons employed by temporary employment agency; · persons temporary not at work if they are in: the continued receipt of wage or salary, an assurance of return to work following the end of the contingency, or an agreement as the date of return. Self-employed persons are defined as persons who are the sole owners, or joint owners, of the unincorporated enterprises in which they work. Self-employed persons also include the following categories: · unpaid family workers, incl. those working in unincorporated enterprises engaged wholly or partly in market production; · outworkers whose income is a function of the value of the outputs from some process of production for which they are responsible. |