Punësuarve

Punësuarve is an Albanian term meaning “the employed” and refers to people who currently have paid work. It denotes the group of individuals within the labor market who are employed, as distinct from those who are unemployed or out of the labor force. The root word is punësuar (employed), and punësuarve is the oblique plural form used in contexts that require a genitive or dative case, such as phrases with prepositions.

In usage, punësuarve appears mainly in formal or statistical writing, policy documents, and labor market reports. It is used to describe characteristics, trends, or conditions affecting employed people as a group. For example, it may appear in sentences about wages, working conditions, or employment policies aimed at the employed. While punësonësit or punonjësit are common everyday terms for “employees” or “workers,” punësuarve tends to be more precise in indicating the group of people who are employed, especially in official discourse.

Relation to related terms: punësimi denotes employment in a more general sense, while papunësia refers to unemployment. Punonjës, punonjëse (plural punonjësit, punonjësat) are common everyday synonyms for employee or worker, but they do not carry the same grammatical function as punësuarve in the oblique case.

See also: labor market, employment, unemployment, wages, employment policy, Albania.