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329 329  50. Paid apprentices, trainees and interns with fixed-term employment arrangements are excluded from this group.
330 330  
331 -=== 43 – Short-term and casual employees ===
331 +– Short-term and casual employees
332 332  
333 -51. Short-term and casual employees are employees with short-term employment arrangements and/or without a guaranteed minimum number of hours of work per pay period. They are workers employed for pay, in formal or informal jobs, who have arrangements whereby:
333 +Short-term and casual employees are employees with short-term employment arrangements and/or without a guaranteed minimum number of hours of work per pay period. They are workers employed for pay, in formal or informal jobs, who have arrangements whereby: (a) there is no guarantee to offer work or to perform work during a set period; or
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335 -* (a) there is no guarantee to offer work or to perform work during a set period; or
336 -* (b) the arrangement is of a short-term nature, with a duration of less than three months from the first day of employment to the expected final day of employment.
335 +(b) the arrangement is of a short-term nature, with a duration of less than three months from the first day of employment to the expected final day of employment.
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338 -52. Employment in this category may provide flexibility for workers who need to balance employment with family responsibilities, education, or other forms of work but may also entail insecurity of income and employment.
337 +1.
338 +11. Employment in this category may provide flexibility for workers who need to balance employment with family responsibilities, education, or other forms of work but may also entail insecurity of income and employment.
339 +11. This category includes two groups which may be separately identified if relevant in national circumstances: //short-term employees //and //casual and intermittent employees~://
340 +111. //short-term employees //are those who are guaranteed a minimum number of hours of work and are employed on a time-limited basis with an expected duration of less than three months. They include:
341 +1111. employees with contracts of employment with a duration of less than three months;
342 +1.
343 +11.
344 +111.
345 +1111. employees without formal arrangements or contracts when it is understood that the employment will be of a duration of less than three months; and
346 +111. //casual and intermittent employees //are those who have no guarantee of employment for a certain number of hours during a specified period but may have arrangements of an ongoing or recurring nature. Depending on national circumstances and specific contractual arrangements pertaining to the job, this group includes employees engaged on a casual or intermittent basis, workers on zero-hours contracts, employees who are only paid when called in to work, and workers hired on a day-to-day basis.
347 +11. Unless the total duration of the employment arrangement is less than three months, short-term and casual employees exclude: 
348 +111. workers with on-call working-time arrangements who are guaranteed a specified amount of employment per pay period; and
349 +111. workers who are guaranteed to be offered work and to be paid for at least one hour per week.
350 +1. – Paid apprentices, trainees and interns
351 +11. Paid apprentices, trainees and interns are employees who perform any activity to produce goods or provide services for others, in order to acquire workplace experience or skills in a trade or profession, and receive payment in return for work performed. Acquiring “workplace experience or skills” may occur through traditional, formal or informal arrangements whether or not a specific qualification or certification is issued. They are usually remunerated at a reduced rate compared to fully qualified workers. They include persons involved in:
352 +111. paid formal or informal traineeships, apprenticeships, internships or other types of programmes, according to national circumstances; and
353 +111. paid skills training or retraining schemes within employment promotion programmes, when engaged in the production process of the economic unit for which they work.
354 +11. They exclude workers who are: 
355 +111. undergoing periods of probation associated with the start of a job;
356 +111. undertaking general on-the-job training or life-long learning while in employment, including in market and non-market units owned by household or family members; and
357 +111. working without pay in market or non-market units owned by household or family members.
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340 -53. This category includes two groups which may be separately identified if relevant in national circumstances: //short-term employees //and //casual and intermittent employees~://
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342 -* //short-term employees //are those who are guaranteed a minimum number of hours of work and are employed on a time-limited basis with an expected duration of less than three months. They include:
343 -* employees with contracts of employment with a duration of less than three months;
344 -* employees without formal arrangements or contracts when it is understood that the employment will be of a duration of less than three months; and
345 -* //casual and intermittent employees //are those who have no guarantee of employment for a certain number of hours during a specified period but may have arrangements of an ongoing or recurring nature. Depending on national circumstances and specific contractual arrangements pertaining to the job, this group includes employees engaged on a casual or intermittent basis, workers on zero-hours contracts, employees who are only paid when called in to work, and workers hired on a day-to-day basis.
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347 -Unless the total duration of the employment arrangement is less than three months, short-term and casual employees exclude:
348 -
349 -* workers with on-call working-time arrangements who are guaranteed a specified amount of employment per pay period; and
350 -* workers who are guaranteed to be offered work and to be paid for at least one hour per week.
351 -
352 -– Paid apprentices, trainees and interns
353 -
354 -Paid apprentices, trainees and interns are employees who perform any activity to produce goods or provide services for others, in order to acquire workplace experience or skills in a trade or profession, and receive payment in return for work performed. Acquiring “workplace experience or skills” may occur through traditional, formal or informal arrangements whether or not a specific qualification or certification is issued. They are usually remunerated at a reduced rate compared to fully qualified workers. They include persons involved in:
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356 -* paid formal or informal traineeships, apprenticeships, internships or other types of programmes, according to national circumstances; and
357 -* paid skills training or retraining schemes within employment promotion programmes, when engaged in the production process of the economic unit for which they work.
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359 -They exclude workers who are:
360 -
361 -* undergoing periods of probation associated with the start of a job;
362 -* undertaking general on-the-job training or life-long learning while in employment, including in market and non-market units owned by household or family members; and
363 -* working without pay in market or non-market units owned by household or family members.
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365 365  == E. Contributing family workers ==
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367 367  **57. **//Contributing family workers// assist a family member or household member in a market-oriented enterprise operated by the family or household member, or in a job in which the assisted family or household member is an employee or dependent contractor. They do not receive regular payments, such as a wage or salary, in return for the work performed, but may benefit in kind or receive irregular payments in cash as a result of the outputs of their work through family or intra-household transfers, derived from the profits of the enterprise or from the income of the other person. They do not make the most important decisions affecting the enterprise or have responsibility for it.
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