full-time employment; regular employment
Refers to employment without a fixed term, often contrasted with temporary or part-time work. Common in labor and legal contexts.
The company hired the new graduates as regular employees.
Stability of regular employment is a major goal of the labor union.
正社員 refers to a regular employee status, while 常時雇用 emphasizes the continuous, non-temporary nature of the employment itself.
臨時雇用 is temporary employment, the opposite of 常時雇用.
Compound of 常時 (constant, always) and 雇用 (employment).