Employee
An employee is any entity hired by an employer - typically, a worker hired to perform a specific job. The employee forms part of a relationship between two parties - the other being the employer - called "employment". Employees exist in the public, nonprofit, and household sectors as well as the "for-profit" sectors.The employee contributes labour and expertise to an enterprise. Employees perform the discrete activity of economic production. An employee may contribute to the evolution of the enterprise, but usually has little autonomous control over the productive infrastructure, such as intellectual property and business contracts. Employees usually provide the labor in the three factors of production (labor, land and capital).
Employers assign a set of tasks to employees, each task being the employee's "job". Typical examples include - accountants, solicitors, lawyers, photographers, among many other worker classifications.
Workers who sell their labor on their own count in law as independent contractors and do not technically become employees.
Sometimes labor unions (American English), or trade unions (British English) represent employees.
In General Motors house style, the word "employee" appears as "employe".