Definition
1. Employer is a person who operates his own enterprise directly or through another person (e.g. a manager or caretaker) and who for the operation of this enterprise hires one or more employees whom he pays in cash or in kind.
2. Employee is a person who works for a public or private employer and is paid in cash or in kind by the employer. All government servants, for example, are employees.
3. Own Account Worker is a person who operates his own enterprise (e.g. a farmer growing apple in his own land, petty-trader, advocate who practices independently) and who does not employ anybody to work for him in operation of his enterprise. He or she neither employs anybody nor is employed by anybody (a fruit seller who does his or her business all alone).
4. Unpaid family worker is a person who helps in running an economic enterprise operated by a member of his or her family without payment of wages or salary (e.g. wife who helps her husband in apple farm or in cultivation of rice, daughter who helps in hand-loom weaving).
