Types of Employment (Edexcel IGCSE Business)

Type of Employment

Explanation

Example

• Full-time employment is when an employee works the total number of hours considered by the company as full-time in a week
  
  
• Full time employees work more hours in a company than part-time employees

• E.g. Under UK labour law, a full-time employee works 35 hours a week or more

Part-time

• Someone who works part-time may only work two or three days a week
  
  
• Part-time employment may be more flexible and can be adjusted subject to employee availability and employer requirements

• E.g. Part-time employees at the US company Costco are required to work a minimum of 24 hours to keep their employee benefits

• Job sharing is the process of breaking up a role into two part-time contracts (in rare cases, the job share may occur between more than two workers)

• E.g. Split-shift job shares have two members of staff working on the same day but at different times. Worker A may work 8 a.m.–1 p.m., and worker B works 1 p.m.–6 p.m

Temporary/casual employment

• Someone who works temporarily shows up for work whenever the business needs them
  
  
• This may be seasonal (summer or winter) or for a determined length of time

• E.g. A ski instructor working for two months during a ski season at a resort in the French Alps