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21:09 Sep 24, 2009
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Social Sciences - Human Resources / work contract definition
English term or phrase: Salaried, Permanent, Casuals
Looking for explanation concerning following terms : in Matter of work contracts what 's the difference betwenn salaried, permanet, casuals.
Gilles Maury


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Andreea Bostan
4salaried, permanent, casualscorbettb
4salariés, permanents, temporaires
Merline
4The first two are not exclusive, the second two are
Andycarruk
3if you are looking for three answers...
Jeanette Phillips


  

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9 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
salaried, permanent, casuals
salariés, permanents, temporaires


Explanation:
personnel salarié : permanents et temporaires

Merline
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neutral  Kim Metzger: This is an English monolingual question.
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21 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
salaried, permanent, casuals
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Explanation:
salarie = person which received wages; does not matter if it is casual or permanent staff
permanent = untill further notice; passed the probation period and now is on board permanently
casual = usually agency staff, but may also be directly employed by the comany; empoyed for a well defined period of time

Andreea Bostan
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neutral  writeaway: so which of these three terms deserves entry into the glossary. Any refs to back them?
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neutral  Armorel Young: there's a standard distinction between salaried staff (usually paid monthly) and wage earners (usually paid weekly), so you can't simply equate salary (note spelling) with wages
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22 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
salaried, permanent, casuals
if you are looking for three answers...


Explanation:
If you earn a salary you are likely to be a qualified professional person in a certain field, with a long term indefinite contract. eg, a teacher earns a salary, so does a nurse. Salaried people can be permanent. You can have a permanent job in a factory, but this is not necessarily for a salary. You will get wages, and your job is likely to be secure. Casual work is often short term and/or part time, eg seasonal work such as picking fruit and vegetables, babysitting, a bit of cleaning or gardening from time to time, with no contract of employment. I hope this helps, although it's not an all-encompassing definition.

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2 days20 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
salaried, permanent, casuals
salaried, permanent, casuals


Explanation:
In a workforce where there is both unionized and non-unionized staff these terms can refer to the following types of employees:

salaried = non-unionized staff, fixed salary with no overtime or set hours of work, sometimes referred to as 'management'.

permanent = full-time employees in the bargaining unit who have passed any probationary period and who are entitled to overtime or shift differentials etc.

casual = temporary, on-call staff who are usually unionized in so much as their rate of pay and maximum hours and working conditions are governed by the collective agreement

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salaried, permanent, casuals
The first two are not exclusive, the second two are


Explanation:
Salaried workers are permanent employees who receive an Annual Salary which is then usually subdivided and paid monthly. The modern usage is, according to the OED, that the salaries are paid for professional, non-manual labour.

Permanent employees are workers who have a contract of employment and can be either salaried or weekly paid, full-time or part-time. These workers usually have paid leave and severance terms built into their contracts. Traditionally, manual workers are weekly paid and professionals Monthly paid but that distinction is blurred these days.

Casuals have no contract of employment and are paid either on a day rate or on a piece-rate. They may have a contract of service which is different from a contract of employment in that it specifies that the employer-employee relationship does not exist between service provider and service consumer.

Typically, contractors, temps and season workers would be referred to as casuals.

To use the example of a clerical temp. The Agency would employ the individual worker. In a limited sense they are permanent employees since they gain employee rights depending on length of service and time spent on assignment. They have a contract of employment but it is a limited one with a lot of caveats.
To the end customer, the clerical temp is a casual since they have no employer relationship with the individual, they simply contract with the agency for the supply of services. That contract will specify where and how the service is supposed to be rendered and may even name the individual but there will be a right of substitution and the contract will specificly state that it is not a contract of employment.

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