Non-standard forms of employment

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Non-standard forms of employment

Non-standard forms of employment, based on the statistical classification of status in employment according to the International Labour Office (2020), refers to employment arrangements that deviate from the standard employment relationship, understood as work that is full-time, indefinite, formal, and part of a subordinate relationship between an employee and employer. These non-standard forms include temporary employment; part-time and on-call work; temporary agency work and other multiparty employment relationships; and disguised employment and dependent self-employment, when dependent workers have contractual arrangements of a commercial nature. According to the International Labour Office, this does not include independent self-employment, which is a separate employment category (“The status and working conditions of artists and cultural and creative professionals”, report of the OMC (open method of coordination) working group of member states’ experts, June 2023).