10.1 Appendix A: FSET Definitions

Employer: One who offers and provides work to another person. The employer can be an owner, proprietor, corporation, agency, or organization.

Employment: Commonly defined as work performed for pay.

Entered Employment (EE): A term used by work programs to credit the agency for assisting the individual in obtaining unsubsidized employment. Commonly referred to as an EE. See FSET Handbook 7.1.2 Entered Employment for more information on entered employment criteria for FSET.

Full-time employment: Employment that is unsubsidized and that averages 30 or more hours per week when the wages are at least equal to the legally established minimum wage for the job held.

Gross pay: Wages before any deductions are made. Some jobs are categorized under the state minimum wage laws while others are under the federal minimum wage laws.

Part-time employment: Employment that is unsubsidized and that averages less than 30 hours per week when the wages are at least equal to the legally established minimum wage for the job held.

Self-employment: A self-employed person earns income directly from his or her own business. Self-employment is considered an Entered Employment if it meets the criteria of an Entered Employment. Self-employment must also meet definitions of UF (Unsubsidized Full-Time) and UP (Unsubsidized Part-Time) to be an Entered Employment. See FSET Handbook 10.3 Appendix C: FSET Fundable Component Activities for a description of UF and UP codes.

Subsidized employment: Employment for which the employer is reimbursed for employing and/or training a worker.

Temporary agency (also known as staffing agency or employment agency): An agency that hires individuals to fulfill the employment needs of various employers for a limited time period. The agency pays wages to individuals while they work at different work sites and is therefore the employer of record. If the initial job assignment with the temporary agency meets the definition of an Entered Employment, the Entered Employment should be reported in CWW using the temporary agency as the employer.

Subsequent job or site changes while still employed by the temporary agency do not count as another Entered Employment.

Temp to perm placements: An employment hire resulting from an employee who was placed in a job by a temporary agency and subsequently being hired by that employer into a (permanent) job with that employer. Temp to perm hires may be counted as an Entered Employment.

Unsubsidized employment: For the FSET population, unsubsidized employment is a job in which no public money goes toward paying salaries.

This page last updated in Release Number: 18-01
Release Date: 12/14/2018
Effective Date: 12/14/2018