Which of the following is an example of wage employment?
Important Questions on Employment: Growth, Informalisation and Other Issues
We generally think that only those who are doing paid work regularly or casually such as agricultural labourers, factory workers, those who work in banks and other offices as assistants and clerks are workers. From the above discussion, you must have understood that those who are self-employed such as pavement vegetable vendors, professionals such as lawyers, doctors and engineers are also workers. Mark (a), (b) and (c) against self-employed, regular salaried employees and casual wage labourers respectively:
1. Owner of a saloon.
2. Worker in a rice mill who is paid on daily basis but employed regularly.
3. Cashier in State Bank of India.
4. Typist working in a state government office on a daily wage basis but paid monthly.
5. A handloom weaver.
6. Loading worker in a wholesale vegetable shop.
7. Owner of a cool drinks shop that sells Pepsi, Coca-Cola and Mirinda.
8. Nurse in a private hospital who gets a monthly salary and has been working regularly for the past 5 years.
Economists point out that casual wage labourers are the most vulnerable among the three categories. Could you locate who these workers are and where they are found and why?
