Definition
Job status is the type of position of a person in a job, consisting of:
1. Own business: is to work or to do business bearing a risk economically, among others production cost that has been spent for a business that does not return, not using paid or unpaid workers both technology as well as special skill.
Explanation:
In a company set up by more than one person and has no worker/employee, each person has the status of own business.
Examples:
A freelance driver (who receives no fixed salary and uses deposit system instead), becak driver, carpenter, bricklayer, electrician, masseuse, well digger, newspaper agent, ojek driver, merchant, doctor/midwife/healer who open their own practice, ticket seller, property broker and so on.
2. To do business assisted by non permanent/unpaid worker is to work or to do business one his/her own risk, and uses unpaid worker/employee and or non permanent worker/employee.
Non permanent worker/employee is a worker/employee who works for a person or institution/office/company and receives salary only based on working hours or volume of the work.
Examples:
a. A shop owner assisted by members of the family/unpaid worker and or assisted by another person who receives wage based on the working days.
b. A pitchman assisted by unpaid worker or another person who receives wage only when he/she helps.
c. A farmer who cultivates his land assisted by unpaid worker. Although at harvest, the farmer shares the harvest, the harvester is not considered as a permanent worker.
3. To do business assisted by permanent worker/paid worker is to do business on his/her own risk and employs at least one permanent and paid worker/employee.
Permanent and paid worker/employee is a person who works for another person or institution/office/company and receives salary permanently, whether there is or there is no activity.
Examples:
a. A shop owner who employs one or more permanent workers;
b. A cigarette plant owner who employs permanent workers.
4. Employee/government worker is a person who works for government institutions/office or a company belong to government permanently and recieves wage/salary both money as well as goods.
5. Worker/employee is a person who works for another person or institution/office/company permanently and receives wage/salary both money as well as goods. A worker who has no permanent employer, is not categorized as worker/employee but freelancer instead. A person is considered to have a permanent employer, if he/she has a permanent employer during the last one month. Especially for worker in the construction field, he is considered to be worker if he has worked for at least three months for one employer.
6. Freelance worker at agriculture is a person who works for another non permanent person/employer/institution (more than one employer during the last one month) in agriculture both home business or not and receives wage in both money as well as goods, both daily as well as contract system.
Agricultural sector includes crops, plantation, forestry, stock breeding, fishery, and hunt.
- Employer is a person or a party that provides a job on an agreed payment.
Examples of a person who is an employer:
a. A rice farmer who employs a farm worker to cultivate the rice field on daily wage basis;
b. A plantation owner who employs several persons to pick coconuts on wage basis.
Examples of freelancer in agriculture: rice harvest worker, hoe artisan, rubber tapper, fishpond prawn harvest worker, coffee, coconut, clove picker, and so on.
7. Freelancer in non agriculture is a person who works for another non permanent person/employer/institution (more than one employer during the last one month), in non agriculture and receives wage in both money as well as goods, both daily as well as contract system.
Explanation: Non agriculture business is business in all sectors except agriculture.
Examples of freelancer in non agriculture: coolie in the market, railway station or other places that have no permanent employer, prospective passenger of public transportation, mobile washerwoman, scavenger, construction worker, free parking attendant, and so on.
8. Family worker/unpaid is a person who works helping another person who makes a business and receives no wage/salary, nor money nor goods.
Unpaid worker consists of:
a. Household member of the person he/she helps, for instance a wife who helps her husband at the rice field;
b. Not a permanent member of the household of the person he/she helps, for instance a relative who helps selling in the shop;
c. Not a member of the household and not a relative of the person he/she helps, for instance a person who helps weaving hats in a neighbor's home industry.