Labour Market in the Czech Republic
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The 15th International Conference of Labour Statisticians, 1993 adopted the revised International Classifi-cation of Status in Employment (ISCE-93). This classification created the fundamental terminology for particular groups of the employed. The employed include all persons aged 15+, who worked at least 1 hour during the reference week for a wage, salary or any other compensation, or who had a formal job attachment while not being at work. Whether their work activity was permanent, temporary, seasonal or occasional in nature or whether they were multiple job holders or not makes no difference. Persons on maternity leave are included, too. However, persons on additional child-care (parental) leave are not included.
The release shows data separately for total (general) employment (employment in national economy) and employment in civil sector. The latter does not include regular and temporary members of the armed forces.
1. The employed are all persons aged 15+ embraced in the following categories in the reference week:
1.1 The paid employed, which fall in the following groups:
1.1.1 “At work”. These are persons who executed any work in the reference week and were paid wage or salary in money or in kind. It does not matter whether their working activity was of a permanent, temporary, seasonal or occasional character or if they held only first or second jobs.
1.1.2 “In work but not at work”. These are persons who had already worked in their current employment but were temporarily absent from work in the reference period and had a formal link to this employment. A formal link to employment is above all the existence of a working contract, appointment or election, further work execution agreement and working activity agreement or, as the case may be, other contractual relations outside the area of labour law (e.g. royalty contracts).
1.2 The employed in their own enterprise, who fall in the following groups:
1.2.1 “At work” are persons who executed any work in the reference week to gain a profit or family income, regardless if in money or in kind.
1.2.2 “In enterprise but not at work” are persons who own an enterprise and were temporarily absent from work in the reference week for one reason or another.
For the purposes of the Survey, the concept of work is used for work taking at least one hour in the reference week. Also apprentices who receive wage, salary or remuneration like other persons are considered as employed. The same holds good for students, housepersons and other persons engaged above all in other than economic activities and were employed in the reference period. On the other hand, persons on additional child-care leave, whose status is of a different character according to the ILO methodology, are not automatically included in the group of employed.
Employees are persons with a formal link to employment regardless if they actually worked or not in the reference week. The ILO classifies also regular and temporary members of the armed forces among employees. All the members of the armed forces are encompassed in total employment; data for these persons can be seen in Annex Tables II. (Employment in national economy).
The members of producers´ cooperatives are classified as an independent category. In conformance with ILO recommendation and for the needs of international comparisons, these persons are connected with the group of employees.
Employers and own-account workers are considered to be employed in their own enterprise. Also contributing family workers are regarded as employed in an own enterprise, regardless of hours worked in the reference week. The category of employers as classified by ICSE corresponds to entrepreneurs with employees in LFSS and the category of own-account workers corresponds to entrepreneurs without employees.