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French A-level > Le Monde Du Travail > Flashcards

Le Monde Du Travail Flashcards

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To earn a living

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Gagner sa vie

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To make plans for the future

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Faire des projets d’avenir

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Job seeker

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Le demandeur d’emploi

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Advertisements for jobs

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Les offres d’emploi

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Vacancy

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Le poste vacant

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To find a job

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Trouver une situation

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Working day

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Le jour ouvrable

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Public holiday

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Le jour férié

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Day off

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Le jour de congé

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Paid holiday

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Le congé payé

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Lunch break

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La pause-déjeuner

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Full time

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À temps plein

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Part time

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À mi-temps / temps partiel

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Civil service

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La fonction publique

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Service industries

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Le secteur tertiaire

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Working life

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La vie active

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Career guidance

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L’orientation professionnelle

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To be aiming for a career in

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Se destiner à une carrière dans

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Career prospects

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Les perspectives de carrière

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To be retired

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Être à la retraite

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To lack experience

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Manquer d’expérience

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Learning process/ apprenticeship

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L’apprentissage

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Work experience

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Le stage en entreprise

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Traînée

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Le/la stagiaire

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Ongoing training

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La formation continue

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Job training alternating with education

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La formation en alternance

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Apprenticeship in the workplace

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L’apprentissage sur le terrain

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28
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To learn on the job

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Être formé sur le tas

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To get basic experience of a job

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S’initier aux pratiques du métier

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To know the ins and outs of the job

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Connaître les ficelles du métier

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Personal achievement

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L’accomplissement personnel

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32
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Applicant

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Le/la candidat(e)/ postulant

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Application

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La candidature / la demande d’emploi

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To apply for a job

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Faire une demande d’emploi / solliciter un emploi

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Job description

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La description de poste

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36
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To possess the required qualifications

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Posséder les qualifications requises

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37
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To provide references

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Fournir des références

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To be experienced

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Être expérimenté

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To be equal to the task

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Être à la hauteur

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40
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Management (position)

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La direction

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41
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To employ

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Engager

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42
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To dismiss

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Congédier

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43
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To be sacked

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Se faire licencier

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44
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To sack

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Mettre à la porte

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45
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To be on strike

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Se mettre en grève

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46
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To show initiative

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Faire preuves d’initiatives

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47
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To earn a certain amount

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Toucher

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48
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Redundancy

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Un licenciement

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49
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Database

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Une base de données

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50
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Employment agency

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Une agence interim

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51
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L’ANPE

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L’Agence national pour l’emploi

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52
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CDI

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Contrat à durée indéterminée

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CDD

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Contrat à durée déterminée

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54
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SMIC

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Le salaire minimum

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55
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DRH

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La direction de ressources humaines

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ARE

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Allocation d’aide au retour à l’emploi

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57
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To be appointed

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Être nommé

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58
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To be hired

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Se faire embaucher

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59
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To earn a salary

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Toucher un salaire

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60
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To resign

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Démissionner

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61
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To sign on as unemployed and looking for work

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S’inscrire comme demandeur d’emploi

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62
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An employment agency

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Une agence de placement

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63
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Head hunter

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Le chasseur de têtes

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64
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To make approaches to

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Faire des démarches auprès de

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65
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To fill a gap in the job market

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Combler un vide sur le marché de travail

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66
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A permanent job

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Une embauche définitive

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67
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Temporary replacement

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L’intérimaire

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68
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Temporary work/ filling in for someone

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Le travail intérimaire

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Competitive

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Concurrentiel

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To work for oneself

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Travailler à son compte

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A shortage of labour

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Une pénurie de main-d’oeuvre

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An acute shortage of experienced people

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Un manque aigu d’hommes de terrain

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Surplus

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L’excédent

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Scarcity of jobs

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La raréfaction de l’emploi

75
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Temporary employee

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Le vacataire

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Shift work

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Le travail par roulement

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To do shift work

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Faire les trois-huit

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Rat race

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La foire d’empoigne

79
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Starting ones first job

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L’entrée en activité

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To be on the way up

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Avoir le pied à l’étrier (stirrup)

81
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To play on ones good points

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Miser sur ses atouts

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To get a job through contacts

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Trouver un emploi par relations

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To climb the ladder

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Gravir les échelons

84
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To leap at the opportunity

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Sauter sur l’occasion qui se présente

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To do well for oneself

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Tirer son épingle du jeu

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Performance related pay

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Le salaire au mérite

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To reach the position of

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Accéder au statut de

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Middle manager

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Le cadre moyen

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Top manager

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Cadre supérieur

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Management (abstract)

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La gestion

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CEO

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Le PDG

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To relocate

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Délocaliser

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To request a transfer

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Demander une mutation

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To take an extra day off between a public holiday and a weekend

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Faire le pont

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Time off for training

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Le congé formation

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To go on sick leave

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Partiel en congé de maladie

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Aimlessness

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Le désœuvrement

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Unemployment benefit

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L’allocation de chômage

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To be on social benefits

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Toucher l’aide publique

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Non working population drawing benefit

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Les inactifs allocataires

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To feel rejected

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Avoir l’impression d’être mis au rebut

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Protest

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La contestation

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Industrial action

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Le mouvement social

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Walk out

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L’arrêt de travail

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To call a strike

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Lancer un appel de grève

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To give notice of strike action

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Déposer un préavis de grève

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To go on strike

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Faire grève

108
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Striker

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Le/la gréviste

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Picket

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Le piquet de grève

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Picket line

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La ligne de piquetage

111
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To hand in ones notice

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Donner son préavis

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To cause a delay

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Occasionner un retard

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Emergency services

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Les services d’urgence

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To endanger/ compromise

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Compromettre

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To unite with / show solidarity with

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Se solidariser

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Job security

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La sécurité de l’emploi

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Flexitime

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Les horaires flexibles

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Working hours

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Les horaires de travail

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To work overtime

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Faire des heures supplémentaires

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Profitability

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La rentabilité

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Social rights/ achievements

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Les acquis sociaux

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To stand shoulder to shoulder in a dispute

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Mener un conflit au coude-à-coude

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Sharing benefits of increased productivity

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Le partage des gains de productivité

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Union

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Le syndicat

125
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To join

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Adhérer à

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Union dues

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La cotisation syndicale

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Union member

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La/le syndicaliste

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Union official

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Le/la responsable syndical

129
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Union représentative

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Le/la délégué syndical

130
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Bargaining power of unions

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La puissance revendicative des syndicats

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Négociations

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Les pourparlers

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Décline in union support

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L’affaiblissement de l’esprit syndicaliste

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Union influence has decreased

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Le poids syndical s’est allégé

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Maternity/ paternity leave

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Le congé de maternité/paternité

135
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To be the victim of ridicule

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Être victime de dérision

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Difference between salary levels for the same job

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La disparité salariale à poste identique /à emploi équivalent

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Women are under represented in management roles

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Les femmes sont sous-représentées aux postes de direction

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Area monopolised by men

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Une filière monopolisée par les hommes

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To accomplish a breakthrough

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Accomplir une percée

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To invade male bastions

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Investir des citadelles masculines

141
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Slow pace of change in attitudes

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Le lenteur de l’évolution des mentalités

142
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To humiliate

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Abaisser

143
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To be career minded

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Être carriériste

144
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Both partners working

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Un couple biactif

145
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Working parents

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Les salariés-parents

146
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Rewarding career

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Une carrière valorisante

147
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Self esteem

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L’amour-propre

148
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To assert ones rights

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Faire valoir ses droits

149
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To throw oneself into

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S’investir pleinement dans

150
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Weighing up the priorities

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Une mise en balance des priorités

151
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To reconcile family life and professional life

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Concilier vie de famille et vie professionnelle

152
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Time management

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La gestion de temps

153
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To stay at home and look after the family

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Rester femme au foyer

154
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To regard the family as a brake on ones career

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Considérée la famille comme un frein à sa carrière

155
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To combine a career with family life

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Conjuguer carrière et famille

156
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To juggle with conflicting demands

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Jongler avec des impératifs contradictoires

157
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To have repercussions on family life

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Rejaillir sur la vie de famille

158
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Adaptation of working hours

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L’aménagement des heures de bureau

159
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Flexibility of working hours

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La souplesse des horaires

160
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To work at home

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Travailler à domicile

161
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Stay at home parent

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Le parent au foyer

162
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Under pressure/stressed

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Sous tension

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Dedication/relentlessness

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Acharnement

164
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Professional mobility

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La Mobilité géographique

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Budget

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Une enveloppe

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Hiring authority

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L’instance de sélection

167
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Glass ceiling

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Le plafond de verre

168
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Cradle/ birthplace (fig)

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Le berceau

169
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To lend a hand to

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Filer un coup de main à qqn

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Call for applicants

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Un appel à candidature

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Midwife

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Une sage-femme

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Cut rate (a minima)/ reduced

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Au rabais

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