26 Sep What is the difference between non-employment and unemployment?
In our current culture, people are changing jobs constantly. It has become normal to work for many companies and employers in an individual’s career. One factor to changing jobs so frequently is that many workers face unemployment while searching for alternate jobs.
A worker can become unemployed if they resign or are terminated by their employer and don’t have another offer to work for an alternative employer. Because this worker cannot move from one employment contract directly into the next, the gap between acquiring a new job characterizes the employee as currently unemployed. To be considered unemployed, the worker must be actively searching for work, able to perform their role, and ineffectual at obtaining a new position.
Unemployment can last for a long or short period of time depending on how quickly the worker is hired for a new position. An unemployment period can be extremely situational, and not at the fault of the employee. It could be other factors, like a global pandemic, that could affect the economy, and thus, job availability.
While some workers can be unemployed, there are also workers who become or choose to become non-employed workers. What is the difference between unemployed and non-employed workers? A non-employed worker must not be actively seeking work. Sometimes the hiring process doesn’t go as planned or may be worse than anticipated. In this case, employees could decide to stop applying for jobs, and they would become non-employed.
A non-employed worker could also be experiencing a long-term disability and unable to receive proper accommodations. Because of their inability, they could decide to stop working and searching for other positions. This worker may have also been required to halt their search because they can no longer perform their role.
Another form of non-employment, much different from the other examples, is a parent, caretaker, or guardian, that decides to exit the workforce. This worker has not been compelled to exit the workforce, but has actively decided that they no longer want to be employed.
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