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==Employment legislation==
==Employment legislation==
Employment legislation imposes statutory requirements upon the relations between employers and employees  concerning matters including working hours,  health and safety at work, minimum wage rates, dismissal restrictions  and redundancy payments.  
Employment legislation imposes statutory requirements upon the relations between employers and employees  concerning matters that include working hours,  health and safety at work, minimum wage rates, dismissal restrictions  and redundancy payments. The levels of employee protection provided by the legislation vary from country to country as indicated by the articles  linked to the article on [[employmemt law]].
 


==Employment statistics==
==Employment statistics==


==Employment economics==
==Employment economics==

Revision as of 15:30, 13 August 2008

The concept of employment encompasses a variety of productive activities but has narrower connotations in the fields of law, statistics and economics.

Definitions

The term employment is used colloquially to refer to any human activity devoted to the production of goods and services. In legal terms it has the narrower meaning of a contractual arrangement that gives an employer some measure of control over the activities of an employee, and in national statistics it includes self-employment but excludes unpaid activities and activities in the “shadow economy” that are concealed from the authorities[1].

Employment legislation

Employment legislation imposes statutory requirements upon the relations between employers and employees concerning matters that include working hours, health and safety at work, minimum wage rates, dismissal restrictions and redundancy payments. The levels of employee protection provided by the legislation vary from country to country as indicated by the articles linked to the article on employmemt law.

Employment statistics

Employment economics

  1. For estimates of the magnitude of the shadow economy, see that paragraph in the article on gross domestic product