Employment Flashcards by Hugo Tdn

Entreprise

A firm, a business

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Une usine

À factory, a plant

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Embaucher

To hire, to take on

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La main d’œuvre

The labour force, the workforce

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La masse salariale

The Pay roll

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Qualifié - non qualifié

Skilled - unskilled

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Un ouvrier

A workman / a blue collar worker

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Un employé - un employé de bureau

A white collar worker - a clerk

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Un cadre

An executive

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Les heures supplémentaires - un bourreau de travail

Overtime - a workaholic

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Les effectifs - le sureffectif

Manning levels - overmanning

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Un équipe de travail

A shift

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Le travail au noir - au noir

Moonlighting - on the black market

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La formation permanente

On-the-job-training

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L’intérim - un intérimaire

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

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Suivre un stage intensif

To attend a crash course

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Au chômage

Unemployed,

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Réduire l’activité - une réduction d’activité

to run down - a run down

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chomage partiel - reduire le temps de travail

short time working - to reduce hours

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cesser son activité, fermer (definitivement)

to go out of business, to close down

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donner son préavis a quelqu’un

to give notice to sb

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supprimer des emplois - degraisser

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

liciencier - licencié

to make redundant - redundant

virer - renvoyer

to sack - to fire , to dismiss

licencier - un licenciement

to lay off(US) - a lay-off

la recherche d'emploi

job-seeking,job-hunting

etre candidat à, postuler à - un candidat

to apply for - an applicant

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

a referral - a referee

un stage

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

un stagiaire

a trainee(GB) /an intern(US)

selectionner - etre seléctionné

to shortlist - to be on the shortlist

un délégué syndical

a shop steward

un syndicaliste

a trade unionist

un porte-parole

a spokesperson

une revendication - exiger

a claim - to demand

une assemblée générale

a mass meeting

un bras de fer

a showdown

quitter la salle - debrayer

to walk out

se mettre en grève - appeler a la grève

to go on strike - to call out a strike

une grève totale - une grève illimité

an all-out strike - an indefinite strike

une grève du zèle

a go-slow

une grève tournante

a rolling strike

un non grèviste - un jaune

a non-striker - a scab, a backleg

licenciement abusif

unfair dismissal

un conseil de prud'hommes

an industrial tribunal

réintégrer

to reinstate

la table des négociations

the bargaining, negociation table

une contre-proposition

a counterproposal

un préalable

a pre-condition

conclure un accord

to strike a deal

céder - accorder

to give in, to yied - to grant

reprendre - une reprise - un retour progressif

to resume - a resumption - a drift back

cesser une grève

to call off a strike

un accord salarial

a pay settlement, a pay deal