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employee

A person working under a contract of employment.

The company has eighty employees.
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employee

A person working under a contract of employment.

The company has eighty employees.

employer

A person or business that employs people.

My employer doesn’t hire foreign employees.

employment

The state of being supplied with a paid job.

Right after the graduation I was offered employment at CDsoft.

unemployment

The state of not being supplied with a paid job.

The unemployment rate is increasing every year.

commute

To use regular routes related to work.

His total daily commute was 120 miles.

occupation

Profession.

Her occupation was neurology.

career

Jobs held over a long period.

She began her career in healthcare as a nurse.

profession

Job requiring skills, training or education.

The teaching profession requires a degree.

salary

Money paid to an employee mostly on monthly basis.

He receives high salary as CEO of CDsoft.

public sector

The part of the economy run by the government.

You earn a guaranteed pension working for the public sector.

private sector

The part of the economy including privately owned organisations.

He found financially rewarding employment in the private sector.

to retire

To leave a job because of old age or poor health.

She is due to retire next year.

flexitime

A practice when an employee choses the time of starting and finishing work within a certain period.

The flexitime scheme has been introduced in our company last year.

to resign/quit

To leave a job by one’s own will.

He resigned last week.

to fire/sack/dismiss

To remove someone from their job, especially for doing something wrong.

She got sacked for breaching confidentiality.

vacancy

An available job position.

They have two managerial vacancies in HR department.

overtime

Time spent working more than your normal hours.

The employees working overtime earn extra money.

shift

Working in turns.

He takes night shifts in a hospital so he can attend his courses.

workload

The assigned work to be done by someone.

Managers have to find ways to distribute the workload between departments.

blue-collar

Relating to manual work needing physical skill.

The community was made up of mostly blue-collar workers.

white-collar

Relating to work in an office.

He’s losing the support of white-collar voters.

time off

A short period of leaving job.

He earned a full day of time off after working overtime.

unpaid leave

Unpaid time away from work.

She could not afford to take unpaid maternity leave.

sick leave

Time away from work when sick.

Sick leave period must not exceed 30 days in one year.