Employee
Topic: Employment, Unemployment and Informalisation · NCERT: Class 11, Ch 1 "Introduction (Statistics for Economics)"; Class 11, Ch 8 "Use of Statistical Tools"
Meaning
An employee is a person who works for someone else and is paid a wage or a salary for that work. The person or firm paying them is the employer. Being an employee is one way of being a worker, but not the only way. Self-employed people and unpaid helpers in family enterprises are also counted as workers, even though nobody employs them.
Example
A cashier in the State Bank of India is an employee. So is a nurse in a private hospital who gets a monthly salary. Both work for an organisation and are paid by it.
Don't confuse with
- Worker: a wider term. It covers anyone doing economic activity, including the self-employed shop owner and the unpaid family helper, not only people on someone else's payroll.
- Self-employed: a person who owns and runs their own enterprise to earn a living. They have no employer above them.
Related concepts
- Economic activities
- Worker
- Workforce
- Wage
- Salary
- Payment in kind
- Fee
- Employer
- Work from home
- Moonlighting