792 Glossary for Terms19 Labour and Wages Labour force Employed person and unemployed person among the 15 years old and over population. Employed person Employed person at work and employed person not at work. Employed person at work Person who worked for pay or profit for at least one hour during the reference week (Family workers who worked without pay are included in "employed person at work"). Employed person, not at work Among the person with jobs but not at work during the reference week (for employees, to person who received, or were expected to receive wage or salary (including leave allowance); and for self-employed worker who did not work during the reference week and whose absence from work has not exceed 30 days). Family workers who were not at work during the reference week are classified into unemployed person or not in labour force. Unemployed person Person who satisfy the following conditions: (1) with no job and did no work at all during the reference week (other than employed person); (2) ready to work if work is available; and (3) did any job seeking activity or was preparing to start business during the reference week (including waiting on the outcome of the job seeking activity done in the past). Not in labour force Population 15 years old and over who are not classified as employed person or unemployed person. Total cash earnings Total for “contractual cash earnings” and “special cash earnings”. Contractual cash earnings Earnings paid according to method and conditions previously determined by labour contracts, collective agreements, or wage regulations of establishments. Special cash earnings Amount actually paid to the employee during the survey period for temporary or unforeseen reasons not based on any previous agreement, contract, or rule. Also included in this category are retroactive payment of wages as a result of a new agreement, and payments such as summer and year end bonuses which, though terms and amounts are fixed by collective agreements, are calculated over a period exceeding three months, and such as allowances (e. g., marriage allowance) paid with respect to unforeseen events. Contractual cash earnings Before-tax, not after-tax, amount of cash wages paid of employees, for the surveyed month of June, based on paying conditions and calculating methods specified in advance in labour contract, labour agreement, and/or working rules of establishments. Scheduled cash earnings Amount of contractual cash earnings, not including overtime allowance. This amount is composed only of earnings in cash, not of earnings in kind. Part-time workers Part-time workers refer to regular employees whose scheduled working hours a day or a week is les than those of general. Parson engaged Parson engaged refer to persons employed full-time without fixed period, excluding temporary employees. Contractual cash earnings This shall mean not only basic salary but also all monthly salaries such as age-based salary, seniority-based salary, district allowance, cold region allowance, performance-based remuneration, family allowance, housing allowance, good attendance allowance, duty allowance, commuting allowance, allowance for special roles, overtime allowance, night work allowance, and holiday allowance. Prescribed working hours Prescribed working hours from opening time to closing time with rest time deducted, as specified in office regulations. Number of annual holidays This refers to the total number of holidays for an enterprise in a year. Holidays refer to weekly holidays (Sundays, Saturdays, and other company-designated holidays) on which there is no obligation to work according to rules of employment, collective agreements, or labour contracts, as well as holidays other than weekly holidays (national holidays, year-end and New Year's holidays, summer holidays, company anniversaries, and other days designated as company holidays). However, this does not include annual paid leave or days off for employment adjustments or production adjustments. Persons engaged in work Persons who are usually working for financial reward and intend to continue working after the survey date and those who have jobs but are absent from work at present. When a member in a family engages in family-run business (privately-operated stores, factories, farms, etc.), it is considered that the member has done work for earning an income for the family even if the member receives no compensation for the work. For persons whose usual labour force status cannot be clearly classified because they work on an irregular or occasional basis or help out with the family business only in the busy season, those who work 30 days or more in a year are generally considered as persons engaged in work. Persons not engaged in work Persons who are usually not working, namely those who never work usually; and those who work only temporarily. General works < Employment Security Service Statistics > General works refer to “regular works” and “casual and seasonal works”. Regular works Regular works refer to either a work without fixed employment term or a work with fixed term of more than 4 months (excluding seasonal work). Casual works, Seasonal works Casual works refer to a work with fixed employment term of 1 month to 4 months and Seasonal works refer to a work engaged for a certain term by seasonal labour demand or utilising own leisure time. Part-timers Part-timers refer to those employees whose scheduled working hour is less than that of the regular employees in the same workplace. Labour productivity index The indices have been compiled for the purpose of measuring changes in physical labour productivity of mining, manufacturing and non-manufacturing industries. The physical labour productivity is defined as the output per labour input, the latter of which is expressed in terms of man-hour. Labour unions Labour unions are an organisation or federations thereof formed voluntarily and composed mainly of workers for the main purposes of maintaining and improving working conditions and raising the economic status of the workers.