Unemployment defined as the state of not being employed or redundant, clarifying terminology for employment law analysis. Unemployment is the legal concept denoting the state of being not employed, covering absence of paid work, idleness, non engagement in an occupation and redundancy; Black's Law Dictionary defines it as not being employed, while the New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary describes it as not made use of or out of paid employment, and these definitional references are provided as research material relevant to Indian law.