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Employment is a relationship between two parties, usually based on a contract where work is paid for, where one party, which may be a corporation, for profit, not-for-profit organization, co-operative or other entity is the employer and the other is the employee.

Employees work in return for payment, which may be in the form of an hourly wage, by piecework or an annual salary, depending on the type of work an employee does or which sector she or he is working in.

Employees in some fields or sectors may receive gratuities, bonus payment or stock options.

In some types of employment, employees may receive benefits in addition to payment.

Benefits can include health insurance, housing, disability insurance or use of a gym.

Employment is typically governed by employment laws or regulations or legal contracts.

A part-time contract is a form of employment that carries fewer hours per week than a full-time job.

They work in shifts but remain while off duty and during annual leave.

The shifts are often rotational.

Workers are considered to be part-time if they commonly work fewer than 30 hours per week.

According to the International Labour Organization, the number of part-time workers has increased from one-fourth to a half in the past 20 years in most developed countries, excluding the United States.

There are many reasons for working part-time, including the desire to do so, having one's hours cut back by an employer and being unable to find a full-time job.

The International Labour Organisation Convention 175 requires that part-time workers be treated no less favourably than full-time workers.

Flextime (also spelled flexitime [British English], flexi-time) is a flexible hours schedule that allows workers to alter workday start and finish times.

In contrast to traditional work arrangements that require employees to work a standard 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. day, flextime typically involves a "core" period of the day during which employees are required to be at work (e.g., between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m), and a "bandwidth" period within which all required hours must worked (e.g., between 5:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m).

The working day outside of the "core" period is "flexible time", in which employees can choose when they work, subject to achieving total daily, weekly or monthly hours within the "bandwidth" period set by employers, and subject to the necessary work being done.

The total working time required of employees on flextime schedules is the same as that required under traditional work schedules.

A flextime policy allows staff to determine when they will work, while a flexplace policy allows staff to determine where they will work.

Advantages include allowing employees to coordinate their work hours with public transport schedules, with the schedules of their children, and with daily traffic patterns to avoid high congestion times such as rush hour.