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Employment is a relationship between two parties, usually based on a contract where work is paid
for, where one is the employer and the other is the employee.
Contents

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1 Employee

2 Employer-worker relationship

2.1 Finding employees or employment

2.2 Training and development

2.3 Employee benefits

2.4 Organizational justice

2.5 Workforce organizing

2.6 Ending employment

3 Wage labor
3.1 Wage slavery

4 Employment contract

4.1 Australia

4.2 Bangladesh

4.3 Canada

4.4 Pakistan

4.5 India

4.6 Philippines

4.7 United Kingdom

4.8 United States

4.8.1 U.S. Federal income tax withholding

4.8.2 Labor unions

4.9 Sweden

5 Age-related issues

5.1 Younger age workers

5.2 Older age workers

6 Working poor

7 Models of the employment relationship

8 Academic literature

9 Globalization and employment relations

10 Alternatives

10.1 Workplace democracy

10.2 Self-employment

10.3 Volunteerism

10.4 Indenturing and slavery

11 See also

12 Notes and references

13 Bibliography

14 External links

Employee[edit]
Further information: List of largest employers, List of professions and Tradesman
An employee contributes labor and expertise to an endeavor of an employer and is usually hired to
perform specific duties which are packaged into a job. An Employee is a person who is hired to
provide services to a company on a regular basis in exchange for compensation and who does not
provide these services as part of an independent business.

Employer-worker relationship[edit]
Employer and managerial control within an organization rests at many levels and has important
implications for staff and productivity alike, with control forming the fundamental link between desired
outcomes and actual processes. Employers must balance interests such as decreasing wage
constraints with a maximization of labor productivity in order to achieve a profitable and productive
employment relationship.

Finding employees or employment[edit]

The main ways for employers to find workers and for people to find employers are via jobs listings in
newspapers (via classified advertising) and online, also called job boards. Employers and job
seekers also often find each other via professional recruitment consultants which receive

a commission from the employer to find, screen and select suitable candidates. However, a study
has shown that such consultants may not be reliable when they fail to use established principles in
selecting employees. A more traditional approach is with a "Help Wanted" sign in the establishment
(usually hung on a window or door or placed on a store counter). Evaluating different employees
can be quite laborious but setting up different techniques to analyze their skill to measure their
talents within the field can be best through assessments. Employer and potential employee co
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