"paid activity" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when referring to an activity that requires payment, either to take part in or to run the activity. For example: "The charity's annual 5K run is a paid activity which raises money for the organization."
The underlying problem is that most journalists, like most economists, define work as a paid activity and consider family care a form of leisure – a lifestyle choice.
Jarecki's contention is that this is a grotesquely wasteful public-works scheme, creating paid activity for the police, the judiciary and the construction companies building prisons, by packing poor blacks and whites off to jail.
A clutch of such vacancies are open at the moment, including the posts of headmaster, assistant and lunch supervisor at the fine new primary school - enough, with a little extra paid activity, perhaps via the internet (yes! Foula has broadband), to give a tough, hardworking young couple or two a fair living.
Basing the social insurance system on the idea of offering paid activity rather than paid leisure obviously has the consequence that a significant fraction of the workforce is actually "activated" from time to time.
"Detainees can only undertake a maximum of 30 hours of voluntary paid activity a week and can do as much or as little as they want within the 30 hour cap".
An overwhelming 90.25% declared having no paid activity or seeking employment.
According to Russian law, Duma members "may not engage in business or other paid activities" and also may not serve on boards of directors or in any other leadership capacity of a business.
(For paid activities, a portion of the price goes to the service).
Hoping to allay ongoing controversy about industry consulting by its staff, National Institutes of Health (NIH) officials plan to impose a 1-year ban on all outside paid activities for companies.
Studies conducted from elsewhere found income from employment and other regular paid activities to be significantly and negatively influencing households' forest dependency (Hegde and Enters 2000; Mamo et al. 2007; Tieguhong and Nkamgnia 2012).
Beyond their paid activities, locals took the time to sit and tell me stories about their ancestors who came here from other parts of the Amazon after World War II and the collapse of the rubber industry, looking for work.
