When can you say a person is unemployed?

Answer 1

Persons are classified as unemployed if they do not have a job, have actively looked for work in the prior 4 weeks, and are currently available for work. Actively looking for work may consist of any of the following activities:

• Contacting:
• • An employer directly or having a job interview
  • A public or private employment agency
  • Friends or relatives
  • A school or university employment center
• Sending out resumes or filling out applications
• Placing or answering advertisements
• Checking union or professional registers
• Some other means of active job search

Passive methods of job search do not have the potential to result in a job offer and therefore do not qualify as active job search methods. Examples of passive methods include attending a job training program or course, or merely reading about job openings that are posted in newspapers or on the internet.

Workers expecting to be recalled from temporary layoff are counted as unemployed, whether or not they have engaged in a specific jobseeking activity. In all other cases, the individual must have been engaged in at least one active job search activity in the 4 weeks preceding the interview and be available for work (except for temporary illness).

From: http://www.bls.gov/cps/cps_htgm.htm

Answer 2

To be considered unemployed, a person has to have no income coming in from an outside source. The person can not have a job that brings in any money. The person can be laid off or quit a job to be unemployed.A person is considered unemployed when some is fired or let go from a job.

the person must have work lined up for the future or be actively searching for a job (gradpoint)

Answer 3

You are unemployed when you are currently not working or when you are earning less than your weekly benefit amount and working less than full time. For example: you are laid off from an employer due to lack of work. Another example: If your unemployment weekly benefit amount is $400 and you are working part time due to a lack of work, making only $200 a week, then you can report your wages to unemployment & still earn a portion of unemployment benefits.

Answer 4

if they dont have a job