Employer

An organisation, corporation, partnership, firm, association, trust, estate, public or private institution, group, political or administrative entity, or other persons designated in accordance with national legislation, with recognised responsibility, commitment, and duties towards a worker in her or his employment by virtue of a mutually agreed relationship. A self-employed person is regarded as being both an employer and a worker.

(from ICRP Publication 103, 2007)

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