What is your Employment Status?

Some people might confuse regarding their status/condition on their current employer. I know most of you heard about the Probationary status, Regular or even Temporary in your company’s Human Resource Department. But what are these terms and how can you say that you are on that status? Is it necessary that you should know about these conditions?

Regular Employee

A regular employee or permanent employee is a person who passed through a probationary period of employment. Regular employee is placed on the regular rolls/activity of the company or one who is assigned to perform work directly related to the regular operations of the firm. A regular employee is employed without a definite period and the employer may not terminate his services except for a just cause or when authorized by law. And they even receive benefits like healthcare, holidays, sick leave, etc.

What is “Employment without a definite period”?

An employment is deemed to be without definite period where the employee has been hired without any specific date of termination or period of employment.

Probationary employee

A probationary employee or worker is a person hired to occupy permanent or regular position in the company for a specified trial period to prove if he is acceptable for the job. The probationary period is usually from three to six months or even a year. This period is important to determine employee’s fitness for the job or for learning the job.

The probationary period is a span/period of time during which the employee is under observation on his actual job. It aims to help the new employee learn valuable concepts and to prove or show his potential on the company’s job or for regularization during his first several months of work experience.  Probationary Employee could be dismissed without a probable cause. Also, the employer and the employee should agree or there will be an agreement between the two regarding the probationary period.

Temporary Employee

An employee hired to perform work in a specific project, job, or period, upon completion of which the worker’s employment is terminated. Failure to terminate the employee on or before the expiration of the period of contract or completion of the job, in the case of temporary or casual employment, or of a probationary employment may qualify the employee for regular or permanent employment.

Contractual Employee

A contractual employee is hired on an individual employment contract basis to perform work on a specific project. The duration of such employment is indicated in the employment contract, which may not exceed six months. It is an employment based on contract.

Casual Employee

An employee hired for only a few days or few months at a time to work/perform a unit of work or to fill a gap in the absence of another employee, or a worker who is hired occasionally and intermittently especially during peak production periods. Casual employees may or may not possess special trade skills or qualifications; they are not in the permanent payroll of the same employer.

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