Practicing Success
Formal sector establishment are those establishment that employs ? |
20 hired workers or more 20 hired workers or less 10 hired workers or more 10 hired workers or less |
10 hired workers or more |
The correct answer is option (3) : 10 hired workers or more All the public sector establishments and those private sector establishments which employ 10 hired workers or more are called formal sector establishments and those who work in such establishments are formal sector workers. All other enterprises and workers working in those enterprises form the informal sector. Thus, informal sector includes millions of farmers, agricultural labourers, owners of small enterprises and people working in those enterprises as also the self-employed who do not have any hired workers. It also includes all non-farm casual wage labourers who work for more than one employer such as construction workers and headload workers. |