1. David Hunter Representing the ILO Department of Statistics
Revision of International Classification of Status in Employment (ICSE-93)
David Hunter
Representing the ILO Department of Statistics
ILO Department of Statistics

2. Process Working group (met four times from May 2015-September 2017)
Regional meetings
Tripartite Meeting of Experts (February 2018)
Report and draft resolution to be presented at the 20th ICLS in Geneva (10-19 October 2018)
Resolution concerning statistics on work relationships

3. Main conclusions from MoE
In general a strong support for the new framework
Strong support for structuring ICSE-18 in two different hierarchies: according to type of authority and according to type of economic risk
For the inclusion of the different forms of work in ICSaW-18
Several minor clarifications, changes, updates
Dependent contractors: strong but not universal support for inclusion of dependent contractors. There was a need for further work on details of the definition and supporting guidelines
Definition of employers: Proposed boundary of having employees in the reference period was supported by some but opposed by others preference for using ‘regularly’ engage employees as boundary.
Employees: Boundary to distinguish fixed-term from short-term and casual employees, which was proposed as 1 month. Several experts preferred a change to three months which would
Ensure the group might be large enough to measured in typical household surveys
Better align with legal and administrative concept of short-term employment in several countries
Cross cutting variables: domestic workers, multi-party relationship and reasons for non-permanent job required substantial redrafting
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4. Outline of proposed new standards for statistics on work relationships
Conceptual framework for statistics on work relationships
defines the key concepts, variables and classification schemes to be included in the new standards
Revised international Classification of Status in Employment (ICSE-18)
Comprises ten categories applicable to employment and that can be organised in two different hierarchies
International Classification of Status at Work (ICSaW-18)
Extension of the classification of Status in Employment to cover all forms of work, including own-use production work, volunteer work and unpaid trainee work, as well as employment.
A set of cross-cutting variables
That supports the derivation and analysis of the status at work categories
Guidance on measurement
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5. Classification of status based on type of Authority/dependency (ICSE-18-A)
Independent workers
Employers
Employers in corporations
Employers in household market enterprises
Independent workers without employees
Owner-operators of corporations without employees
Own-account workers in household market enterprises 
Dependent workers
Employees
Permanent employees
Fixed-term employees
Casual and short-term employees
Paid apprentices, trainees and interns
Dependent contractors
Contributing family workers

6. Classification of status based on the type of economic Risk (ICSE-18-R)
Workers in employment for profit
Employers in household market enterprises
Own-account workers in household market enterprises
Dependent contractors
Contributing family workers
Workers in employment for pay
Owner-operators of corporations
Employers in corporations
Owner-operators of corporations without employees
Employees
Permanent employees
Fixed-term employees
Casual and short-term employees
Paid apprentices, trainees and interns

7. ICSaW-18 ICSE-18-A versus ICSE-93 -Employment -Own-use production work
I Independent workers
1 Employers
11 Employers in cooperations
12 Employers in household market enterprises
13 Employers in own-use production of services
14 Employers in own-use production of goods
2 Independent workers without employees
21 Owner-operators of corporations without employees
22 Own-account workers in household market enterprises without employees
23 Independent workers in own-use production of services without employees
24 Independent workers in own-use production of goods without employees
25 Direct volunteers
D Dependent workers
3 Dependent contractors
30 Dependent contractors
4 Employees
41 Permanent employees
42 Fixed-term employees
43 Short-term and casual employees
44 Paid apprentices, trainees and interns
5 Contributing family workers
51 Contributing family workers
52 Family helpers in own-use production of services
53 Family helpers in own-use production of goods
6 Unpaid apprentices, trainees and interns
60 Unpaid apprentices, trainees and interns
7 Organization-based volunteers
70 Organization-based volunteers
9 Other workers
90 Other workers
-Employment
-Own-use production work
-Unpaid trainee work
-Volunteer work
-Other work activities
5 Family helpers
Measurement frequency for different forms of work may differ and will be based on national priorities
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8. Dependent contractors
Workers who have contractual arrangements of a commercial nature to provide goods or services for or on behalf of another economic unit, are not employees of that economic unit, but are dependent on that unit for organization and execution of the work or for access to the market.
Relatively high level of economic risk (work for profit) but have less degree of authority (dependent workers) (Between employees and Own-account workers in household market enterprises without employees)
Proposed definition “workers employed for profit, who are dependent on another entity that exercises explicit or implicit control over their activities and directly benefits from the work performed by them”
The dependency might be of an
operational nature, through organization of the work
and/or
economic nature such as through control over access to the market, the price for the goods or services produced, or access to raw materials or capital items
In addition a set of characteristics that do apply, or may apply, and that excludes workers from being defined as dependent contractors is provided
Gives a direction on possible operationalization of the identification of dependent contractors
Maintaining a degree of flexibility
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9. Cross-cutting variables
The classification is complemented by a set of cross-cutting variables that provides information for characteristics that cut across several status categories
Output variables and categories to promote greater harmonization, coherence and international comparablity
Many of these are regulary covered by most LFS but are not covered by international standards
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10. Cross-cutting variables
Required
Duration of work agreement
Type of employment agreement
Contractual hours of work
Forms of remuneration
Place of work
Job-dependent social protection coverage
Reason for non-permanence of job
Essential
Duration of employment in the current economic unit
Seasonal workers
Preference for a non-permanent job
Usual hours worked
Full-time/part-time status
Domestic workers
Home-based workers
Multi-party work relationships
Paid annual leave
Paid sick leave
Recommended
number of employees in the economic unit in which the worker is employed
main form of remuneration
reasons for preferring a non-permanent job
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11. Measurement approach
ILO has in parallel develop a first draft measurement approach that can be used as guidelines by countries for collecting ICSE-18 and the cross-cutting variables
Dynamic guidelines
LFS, Administrative sources, establishment surveys
Based on current practices and test results
Tests have been / are being carried out in: Thailand, Singapore, Finland, Denmark, Italy, Mexico, Chile, Ecuador, Uruguay, El Salvador and the Pacific community
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12. Next steps ICLS in Geneva 10th to 19th October, 2018
Possible to access and comment on the draft resolution before the meeting in the electronic forum
Testing continues and will continue after the ICLS
Partners sought for testing on dependent contractors (both self-employed and employees) and other issues such as zero hours contracts, multi party relationships
Tests can feed into the development of data collection guidelines
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13. Thank you
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