Employment vocabulary (class 1G, Unit 4)

A person who works for another person or for a company for wages or a salary.

• Employee

• Employer

• Employe

• Employeer

A person, company, or organization that pays people to work for them.

• Employee

• Salary

• Apprentice

• Employer

Working fewer hours than is considered normal or standard.

• Unemployed

• Part-time job

• Full-time job

• Less-time job

Time worked in addition to your usual job hours.

• Part-time

• Flexitime

• Overtime

• Full-time

Any type of work that needs special training or a particular skill, often one that is respected because it involves a high level of education.

• Profesion

• Occupation

• Ocupation

• Profession

To receive an increase in the amount of your pay.

• To get a job

• To get a raise.

• To get a pay

• To get a raice

The act of moving someone to a higher position.

• Resign

• Devotion

• Promotion

• Employment

Not going to work for a period of time since you have just given birth.

• Maternity leave

• Paternity leave

• To be on the dole

• To be unemployed

To dismiss someone from a job. (Select all the correct answers).

• To fire somebody

• To sack somebody

• To make somebody redundant

• To resign

To give up a job or position in a formal or official way.

• To sack

• To fire

• To quit

• To resign