These will determine how much flexibility there is around the hours the jobholder must work.

Since then, he has been variously unemployed, a jobholder and out of the labor force.

And they did it with one wage earner, not two or three, working fewer hours than the average jobholder does today.

Still, whatever the insecurities of the American jobholder, some are far better off than others, particularly the college-educated.

Most of the unfilled jobs pay low wages and require relatively little skill, often less than the jobholder has.

The records list the initials of a board member as the "sponsor" of virtually every jobholder.

That in effect overcharges for some families and undercharges for families with only one jobholder.

In lieu of salary it provides the jobholder with staff, luxury and that most important of all perks, power.

On the income side, the average jobholder now earns 800 to 1,000 rubles a month for a 40-hour week, Gaskomstat estimates.

The permanent vacancies have never been advertised and then the jobs 'get lost in the system', and the jobholder retains the post permanently.

I got one and sometimes more than one, but my track record in the survival department is far less admirable than my performance as a jobholder.

This will be further supplemented by a contribution from the jobholder and approximately 1 per cent contribution (in the form of tax relief) from the government.

Ever since that incident, one of the Washington newspapers has used the name "Senator Sorghum" in its humorous paragraphs, to designate the typical venal jobholder.

"The trend is toward contributory plans, financed by the jobholder," said Emily Andrews, research director at the Employee Benefit Research Institute.

Any position of power - in fact, any special status - requires the jobholder to surrender some rights and freedoms in accordance with the power or the status.

Any employee falling outside of these parameters but earning more than £5,035* and aged between 16 and 75 will be deemed to be a 'non-eligible jobholder'.

For Adolph Pagliarulo, Mrs. Pagliarulo's husband, the daily transformation from jobholder to relaxed homeowner begins when he boards the ferry every afternoon.

At the same time, he cautioned job holders to delay looking elsewhere for work because the Civil Service "bumping and retrieval" system would save the original jobholder and transfer vulnerability to an employee with less seniority.

So all in all, with some demerits for screwups and gold stars for effort, I think it's fair to say that as a worker, a jobholder, I deserve a B or maybe B+.

The unemployment rate has declined to 6.8 percent in October from 7.8 percent in June 1992, but the sheer fact of holding a job does not mean, as it once did, that a jobholder feels safely ensconced in the economy.

Curious as to what sort of jobholder could afford a $1,222-a-month apartment, Dr. McCarthy turned to the 2003 "Paycheck to Paycheck" study of 540 occupations in the city conducted by the National Housing Conference.

After the Pensions Act 2008, and due to begin in October 2012, every "jobholder" (defined as a worker, age 16 to 75, with wages between £5,035 and £33,540) must be automatically enrolled by the employer in an occupational pension scheme, unless they choose to opt out.