Employment Flashcards

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Entreprise

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A firm, a business

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Une usine

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À factory, a plant

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Embaucher

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To hire, to take on

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La main d’œuvre

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The labour force, the workforce

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La masse salariale

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The Pay roll

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Qualifié - non qualifié

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Skilled - unskilled

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Un ouvrier

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A workman / a blue collar worker

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Un employé - un employé de bureau

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A white collar worker - a clerk

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Un cadre

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An executive

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Les heures supplémentaires - un bourreau de travail

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Overtime - a workaholic

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Les effectifs - le sureffectif

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Manning levels - overmanning

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Un équipe de travail

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A shift

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Le travail au noir - au noir

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Moonlighting - on the black market

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14
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La formation permanente

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On-the-job-training

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L’intérim - un intérimaire

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Temp(orary) work - a temp (= temporary worker)

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16
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Suivre un stage intensif

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To attend a crash course

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Au chômage

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Unemployed,

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Réduire l’activité - une réduction d’activité

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to run down - a run down

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chomage partiel - reduire le temps de travail

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short time working - to reduce hours

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cesser son activité, fermer (definitivement)

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to go out of business, to close down

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donner son préavis a quelqu’un

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to give notice to sb

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supprimer des emplois - degraisser

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to axe, to shed jobs - to streamline,slimdown,downsize

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liciencier - licencié

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to make redundant - redundant

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virer - renvoyer

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to sack - to fire , to dismiss

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licencier - un licenciement

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to lay off(US) - a lay-off

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la recherche d’emploi

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job-seeking,job-hunting

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etre candidat à, postuler à - un candidat

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to apply for - an applicant

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une lettre de référence - un référent, une personne donnée en référence

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a referral - a referee

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un stage

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an internship(US) / placement (GB) /a training period

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un stagiaire

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a trainee(GB) /an intern(US)

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selectionner - etre seléctionné

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to shortlist - to be on the shortlist

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un délégué syndical

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a shop steward

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un syndicaliste

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a trade unionist

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un porte-parole

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a spokesperson

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une revendication - exiger

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a claim - to demand

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une assemblée générale

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a mass meeting

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un bras de fer

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a showdown

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quitter la salle - debrayer

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to walk out

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se mettre en grève - appeler a la grève

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to go on strike - to call out a strike

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une grève totale - une grève illimité

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an all-out strike - an indefinite strike

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une grève du zèle

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a go-slow

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une grève tournante

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a rolling strike

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un non grèviste - un jaune

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a non-striker - a scab, a backleg

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licenciement abusif

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unfair dismissal

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un conseil de prud’hommes

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an industrial tribunal

46
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réintégrer

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to reinstate

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la table des négociations

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the bargaining, negociation table

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une contre-proposition

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a counterproposal

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un préalable

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a pre-condition

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conclure un accord

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to strike a deal

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céder - accorder

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to give in, to yied - to grant

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reprendre - une reprise - un retour progressif

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to resume - a resumption - a drift back

53
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cesser une grève

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to call off a strike

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un accord salarial

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a pay settlement, a pay deal