Employment

What is Employment?

Employment definition is termed as a paid mutual work arrangement between a recruiter and an employee. This term applies to an individual who is hired for a salary or compensation to initiate work or tasks for an organization. Although the employees can negotiate certain items in an employment agreement, the terms and conditions that are included and are mostly determined by the employer. This agreement could also be ended by the recruiter or the employee.

Time and Compensation of Employment

Employment agreements may vary, as they involve different time commitments and compensation plans.

For example, employment can be:

• An hourly part-time job that is paid for a certain amount for each hour they worked.
• Full-time employment in which individuals receive a salary and benefits from an employer for performing the tasks or work assigned to then that is required by a particular position

On the flexibility of an employee work schedule or it is required of the employee to work a 40-hour week with an hour for lunch or breakfast and two 10-minute breaks, one in the morning after coming to the office and one in the afternoon post-lunch⁠ as it is required by law.

As long as the employer meets their agreement to pay an employee⁠ and to pay on time⁠ and the employee wishes to continue the work assigned by the organization, the work relationship between employer and employee will continue.

Types of Employment

Part-time employees

Part-time employees work for a 'part' of the day, usually in shifts and their work hours are less than that of those employed full time. The laws can change depending upon the employee position. Part-time employees are in a parallel position to full-time employees when it comes to employment protection legislation, although in some exceptions a part-time employee would need to work at a set minimum number of hours for a set period of time before actually getting a full-time job.

Fixed-term employees

Many more individuals are now employed on a fixed-term basis (or on specific purpose contracts). Employees that are working on repeated fixed-term contracts can be considered under the unfair dismissals legislation, although they need to have at least one year of continuous service before they could actually bring the claim under the Unfair Dismissals Acts. Under the Protection of Employees (Fixed-Term Work) Act 2003, employers cannot regularly renew fixed-term contracts. Employees could only work on one or more fixed-term contracts for a set period of time. After which the employee is considered to have a permanent contract of indefinite duration (just like a full-time employee). Under the Act, fixed-term workers that cannot be treated less favourable than comparable permanent employees.

Specified purpose contracts are the contracts which are entered into a competition in order to complete a special assignment or for a special purpose. The provisions that come under the unfair dismissals and protection of workers legislation apply equally to specified purpose contracts.

Casual employees

There is no technical definition of casual employees in recruitment law as of now but in reality, casual workers are dependant on, to do work as required without having fixed hours or attendance tracking for them. However, these workers are also employees, for employment rights purposes.

Some legislation will also apply, for example, the right to receive a payslip while In other instances where a set period of employment is much required it will be doubtful that a casual employee will have adequate service to qualify, for example, 2 years of service is required in order to be authorised to statutory redundancy.

Children and young people

Although, The law does not allow children (that are, aged under 16) to be employees apart from some countries that have very strict and restricted circumstances.

Children that are aged over 14 may do small work outside school term.

Children that are aged over 15, but under 16, may also do some small work and this may include during school term.

But In any of the above circumstances, there are certain restrictions on the number of hours that they are allowed to worked and when the work may be done, with a complete prescription on work between 8 pm and 8 am.

Young people (who's age is between 16-18 years of age) may also become employees but again there are restrictions on the maximum hours that can be spent and overall, the work cannot be between 10 pm and 6 am.

Work & Workplace Environment

It is the employer's responsibility to create positions in order to meet company objectives. The employer, therefore, has to have a note of all the aspects of an employee's work, such as his/her work location, hours, resources, responsibilities and wages. To add more to that,  directness, the degree of input & autonomy, and that an employee experience on the job is the by-product of a recruiter's skill of management and employment.

Workplace cultures range from tyrannical with a strongly centralised chain of command to an employee-centric workspace in which employees have the right to input and make decisions. Each specific person who wants to secure a long-lasting job has the task to find out an environment that gives them the satisfaction, autonomy & empowerment.

If an employee has a strong disagreement with an employer in the private sector, the employee has several other options as well. They can bring problems to their manager or go to human resources or also could talk to upper management, or give notice. However, we should think carefully before choosing one of these options. In professional life, impersonal manner should consider how to resolve the disagreement to ensure a positive and good outcome.

In particularly with unpleasant situations, the employee may also seek help from an employee-side employment law procurator or from their state Department of Labor (DOL) or any other equivalent. But, there is no such guarantee that the disgruntled employee's point of view will win in a lawsuit.

In the public sector companies, a union-negotiated contract may also enhance the opportunity of an employee to negotiate their desired changes.