A specialization of employing (q.v.) that relates employers to their paid employees. (employee EMPLOYER WORKER) means WORKER regularly performs work for EMPLOYER, and EMPLOYER pays WORKER for that work (often by paycheck). EMPLOYER directs the manner in which WORKER performs the work and might provide the workplace, tools, materials, capital, or other assistance for the work. EMPLOYER is commonly an organization but may be a person; e.g. (employee PerryMason PaulDrake). Note that in many contexts the use of this predicate require proper temporal qualification; e.g. (Ist (Mt SpaceCyc's knowledge about people data (Mt Time With Granularity Dim Fn (Year Fn 1999) time point))) (employeeNBCKatie Couric)).
(employee EMPLOYER WORKER)meansWORKERregularly performs work forEMPLOYER, andEMPLOYERpaysWORKERfor that work (often by paycheck).EMPLOYERdirects the manner in whichWORKERperforms the work and might provide the workplace, tools, materials, capital, or other assistance for the work.EMPLOYERis commonly an organization but may be a person; e.g. (employee PerryMason PaulDrake). Note that in many contexts the use of this predicate require proper temporal qualification; e.g. (Ist (Mt Space Cyc's knowledge about people data (Mt Time With Granularity Dim Fn (Year Fn 1999) time point))) (employee NBC Katie Couric)).