Definition: Employers

Category: ILO terminology

Employers are those workers who, working on their own account or with one or a few partners, hold the type of job defined as a "self-employment job", and, in this capacity, on a continuous basis (including the reference period) have engaged one or more persons to work for them in their business as "employee(s)". The meaning of "engage on continuous basis" is to be determined by national circumstances, in a way which is consistent with the definition of "employees with stable contracts". The partners may or may not be members of the same family or household. http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ramon/coded_files/icse_1993_en.pdf