1The state of not having paid work.
many mothers choose non-employment because no high-quality reduced-hour work is available
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- The procedure was designed to handle conflict between the supervisor and the employee about work-related concerns - not about employment or nonemployment.
- It would not be possible for a labourer to lay by anything out of his wages to provide against non-employment; his wages are barely sufficient to support him.
- The nature of any criminal conviction will be considered as to its relevance to the work in question and will not of itself be a reason for non-employment.
- There is a disturbingly high correlation between dropping out of high school and becoming incarcerated, and between nonemployment and becoming imprisoned.
- Even in forms of non-employment there is a role for legislative intervention to ensure equity and decent treatment of working people.
- The architects of India's constitution were fully aware of this menace and incorporated articles mandating nonemployment of children and requiring their induction into school.
- People with very high risks of non-employment spend long periods without earnings.
- The real state of the labour market may be better revealed by the non-employment rate, defined as the proportion of the working age population who are not in work.