Upstream proficiency C2 unit 9 Another Day, Another Dollar - language focus

incentive

describes something which encourages a person to do something; pobudzający

freelance

doing particular pieces of work for different organizations, rather than working all the time for a single organization; pracownik nieetatowu

redundant

having lost your job because your employer no longer needs you; zbędny

binder

hard cover in which paper documents or magazines are stored; segregator

remuneration

payment for work or services; honorarium

compensation

money that is paid to someone in exchange for something that has been lost or damaged or for some problem; odszkodowanie

reimbursement

paying back money to someone who has spent it for you or lost it because of you; zwrot kosztów

severance

money paid by an employer to an employee whose job the employer has had to bring to an endmoney paid by an employer to an employee whose job the employer has had to bring to an end; odprawa

credentials

the abilities and experience which make someone suitable for a particular job or activity, or proof of someone's abilities and experience; referencje

aptitude

a natural ability or skill; uzdolnienia

solicitor

a type of lawyer in Britain and Australia who is trained to prepare cases and give advice on legal subjects and can represent people in lower courts; prawnik/radca prawny

labourer

a person who does unskilled physical work, especially outside; pracownik fizyczny

ironmonger

someone who sells tools for use in homes and gardens; sprzedawca żelaza

clerk

a person who works in an office, dealing with records or performing general office duties; urzędnik • US a hotel employee who welcomes the guests on arrival • US someone who sells things in a shop

accountant

księgowy

carpenter

stolarz

civil servant

a person who works in the Civil Service

assembly line

a line of machines and workers in a factory which a product moves along while it is being built or produced; taśma produkcyjna

warehouse

a large building for storing things before they are sold, used or sent out to shops; magazyn

branch

one of the offices or groups that form part of a large business organization; oddział

demote

to lower someone or something in rank or position; opp. promote

downgrade

to reduce someone or something to a lower rank or position, or to make something less important or less valued; opp. upgrade

fringe benefit

something that you get because of your job which you get as well as your pay but is not in the form of money

reatil trade

the business activity of selling goods through stores to the public, or the companies involved in this; handel detaliczny

industrial relations

the relationships between compaies and their workers

work to rule

a situation in which people carefully obey all the rules and instruction given to them about their jobs, with the intention of reducting the amount of work they do

unemployment benefit

in the UK, money that the goverment pays to unemployed people who are looking for a job

fare-dodger

pasażer na gapę

be entiteled to

to be allowed to do sth

the minimum wage

the smallest amount of money that an employer is legally allowed to pay someone who works for them; pensja minimalna

menial

describes work that is boring, makes you feel tired, and is given a low social value; nudna praca