formal employment
(noun)
Employment that is government regulated, such that workers are insured a wage and certain rights.
Examples of formal employment in the following topics:
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The Feminization of Poverty
- Examples of types of informal employment that are dominated by women include childcare, eldercare, housecleaning, and sex work, among many others.
- Employment can be divided into informal and formal occupations.
- Formal employment is government regulated, and workers are insured a wage and certain rights.
- Informal employment takes place in small, unregistered enterprises.
- A large proportion of women are employed in informal workplaces, reducing the regulation of their employment.
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Variables Affecting Adult Learning
- Learning opportunities for adults exist in a variety of settings ranging from a formal institution to a place of employment.
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Informal Economy
- This is in contrast to the formal economy; a formal economy includes economic activity that is legal according to national law.
- It was used to describe a type of employment that was viewed as falling outside of the modern industrial sector.
- For example, with the adoption of more technologically intensive forms of production, many workers have been forced out of formal sector work and into informal employment.
- This video describes how the informal economy fails to provide some of the same social benefits as work in the formal economy.
- Analyze the impact of the informal economy on formal economy, such as the black market or working "under the table"
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Ethical Usage
- You are, in essence, persuading a potential employer to hire you on the merits of your abilities, skills and experience.
- You're trying to persuade an employer to offer you a job.
- When you submit your résumé and cover letter, you provide your potential employer with an overview of your skills, experiences and background and how they best fit with the position and company with whom you seek employment.
- While many employers complete extensive background reviews and reference checks, they may not follow up with every single bullet point on your résumé.
- This same example holds true in more formal scenarios of persuasive public speaking.
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National Labor Relations Act
- The National Labor Relations Act limits employers' relations to workers who create labor unions and collectively act in support of demands.
- The law holds that wildcat strikes are illegal, and that workers must formally request that the National Labor Relations Board end their association with their labor union if they feel that the union is not sufficiently supportive of them before they can legally go on strike.
- Protecting employees as a class and expressly not on the basis of a relationship with an employer.
- Many accused the NLRB of a general pro-union and anti-employer bias.
- In addition, employers campaigned over the years to outlaw a number of union practices such as closed shops; secondary boycotts; jurisdictional strikes; mass picketing; strikes in violation of contractual no-strike clauses; pension, health, and welfare plans sponsored by unions; and multi-employer bargaining.
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Portfolios for Job Searches
- A while back I got the urge to reflect on my employment history.
- Perhaps one reason why many job interviews fall short of people's expectations is that they primarily highlight and value a skill which may not always correlate well with job success—namely, whether individuals can answer questions in a contrived, formal oral interchange.
- American businesses also spend lots of money designing and carrying out employment interviews.
- Second, it offers prospective employers tangible evidence of the students' skills and aptitudes as communicators.
- The employers responded with the following observations:
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Gender
- Women workers are often used as a source of cheap labor in informal economies, or employment domains that are not regulated by governments and law enforcement.
- In formal economies, women often receive less pay and have less chances for promotion than men.
- This phenomenon is referred to as the gender gap in employment.
- Many employers choose men over women because women are "at risk" of having a child, even though they may not want to have children.
- Describe the effects of gender discrimination on women's employment and wealth
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Impact of Unions on Unemployment
- A union is a formal organization of workers who have banded together to achieve common goals such as protecting the integrity of its trade, achieving higher pay, increasing the number of employees an employer hires, and better working conditions.
- They function by negotiating with employers to create a collective agreement that applies to all union members and typically lasts for a set time period.
- For example, in a unionized industry, rather than each employee negotiating his or her own vacation time with the employer, a union will negotiate with the firm in order to create a contract governing vacation time that applies to every union member.
- Trade unions in their current form became popular during the industrial revolution, when most jobs required little skill or training and therefore almost all of the bargaining power fell with employers rather than employees.
- Rather than a competitive market with many buyers (employers) and sellers (employees), there are many buyers but only one seller: the union.
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Case: China establishes a new employment contract law for 2008
- In an effort to promote better employment relationships between employers and employees, and establish stricter guidelines for Employment practices, the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) passed a new employment contract law in June 2007 which became effective on January 1, 2008.
- This law requires all employers to enter into contracts with their employees within 30 days of full-time employment and sets out guidelines for their implementation.
- An employee's resident ID cards, files or contract papers are retained by an employer illegally or the employer collects an unrequired financial guarantee from an employee.
- If an employer hires an employee whose contract with another employer has not yet been terminated or ended, causing the other employer to suffer a loss, it shall be jointly and severally liable with the employee for damages.
- The new employment contract law will enhance employees' rights in striving for better employment terms and working conditions.
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Defining Full Employment
- In macroeconomics, full employment is the level of employment rates where there is no cyclical or deficient-demand unemployment.
- Full employment is often seen as an "ideal" unemployment rate.
- The full employment unemployment rate is also referred to as "natural" unemployment.
- As an example, the United States is committed to full employment.
- Full employment is defined as "ideal" unemployment.