Definition
Employment - persons who worked or received pay from the establishment.
Include:
- working owners with or without regular pay
- salaried directors, managers and executives
- regular and non-regular workers, e.g., probationary, casual, contractual/project-based, seasonal, paid apprentices/learners
- persons on paid vacation, sick, maternity, paternity, service incentive leave and other paid leaves
- persons working away from the establishment but paid by and under its control, e.g., bus drivers
- workers on strike
- unpaid workers without regular pay who work for at least 1/3 of the working time normal to the establishment including apprentices without compensation or student on-the-job trainees
Exclude:
- silent or inactive partners
- members of the board of directors paid solely for attendance at meetings
- workers on indefinite leave
- laid off workers for six (6) months or more
- persons purely on commission and without employer control
- consultants
- persons on retainer basis
- contract out/agency hired workers
- homeworkers
