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Glossary of Employment Terms

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1.Accomplishment Realizări Successes and key points a
s jobseeker include on their
resume relevant to the
prospective company and the
role applied for.
2.Adoptive leave Concediu Adoptive leave is leave from
adoptiv work for an adoptive mother or
sole male adopter after the
adoption of a child.
3.Agency worker Lucrător de Someone who is employed by
agenție an agency to work for another
person or company.
4.Annual leave Concediul de Annual leave is paid time off
odihnă anual work for holidays, rest or
recreation.
5.Applicant Solicitant Someone who has applied for The successful applicant will
employment, a position, or for assist the publicity manager.
a project in return for
compensation.
 Her knowledge of foreign
languages is among her
many accomplishments.
We have generous maternity and
paternity leave, carer's leave for
emergencies, adoption leave,
parental leave and
compassionate leave.
The employer is always the
employment agency which
supplies the worker.
Americans get just two weeks of
annual leave and there is no
obligation for states to observe
the 10 federal public holidays.
6.Apprenticeship Ucenicie An apprenticeship is a system of
training future members of a
workforce within a specific
industry. Apprenticeships
typically include both on-the-job
training and studying.
7.Background Verificare a Background checks are
check antecedentelor screenings that employers
conduct of a job applicant's or
recent employee's criminal
record, credit history, references
and more.
8.Balanced Balanced Management metric of
Scorecard Scorecard performance used to identify
different functions and their
outcomes.
9.Benefit-in-kind Beneficiu în A term used by Revenue to
natură refer to a taxable non-cash
payment to an employee, for
example, the use of a car.
10.Benefits Beneficii Benefits refer to additional help
an employer offers outside of
compensation. Benefits usually
include things like health
insurance, tuition assistance,
stock options and paid time off
(PTO).
11.Blue-Collar Guler albastru Describes lower-paying jobs,  Chicago policemen, like most
usually, where workers often policemen, reflect blue-
wear protective garments as collar values.
uniforms performing non-
agricultural manual labor. Also
describes the workers in a
blue-collar line of work.
12.Branding Declarație de This is a brief subtitle on a
statement branding resume that tells the potential
employee what an applicant is—
or wants to be—known for.
13.Breaks Pauze Short periods of time for rest
and refreshment taken during
working hours.
14.Bullying Intimidare In the workplace bullying is
repeated inappropriate
behaviour by one or more
There needs a
long apprenticeship to
understand the mystery of the
world's trade.
They will compel more gun
sellers to obtain licences and
more buyers to
undergo background checks.
Peter is currently the Executive
Director of Balanced
Scorecard Institute EMEA.
A benefit-in-kind (BIK) is any
non-cash benefit of monetary
value that you provide for your
employee.
He began collecting his
retirement benefit when he was
65. 
A personal brand statement is
a one or two-sentence
phrase that accurately sums up
what you do and what you stand
for.
It's time for my coffee break.
Dr Muffett stressed that he was
opposed to bullying in schools
and that action would be taken
 people against another person to stamp it out.
or people.
15.Career Carieră Work done as an occupation Ahead of her lay college and a
that takes up a significant possible career in journalism.
period of one’s life and
employment history.
16.Career break Pauză în An unpaid period of time away They then took a career break
carieră from your employment which from teaching, which ultimately
can be for family reasons or became permanent.
study, which is approved by
your employer.
17.Carer’s leave Concediul Carer’s leave is leave from Carer's leave is calculated
îngrijitorului work to care for someone who based on an employee's hours of
is deemed by the Department work, not days.
of Social Protection as being in
need of full-time care and
attention.
18.Casual worker Lucrător A person employed as required The union grew out of the
ocazional without fixed hours or UNITE campaign for casual
attendance arrangements. workers rights.
19.Code of Codul de A code of practice sets out The company plans to
practice practică good practice in employment implement the recommendations
but is not usually legally through its code of practice in
binding the new year.
20.Collective Acorduri Agreements negotiated The complaint was resolved
agreements colective between unions and employers when a collective agreement
about terms and conditions of was reached.
employment.
21.Common law Drept comun Law derived from custom and Civil contempt at common law
court decisions, rather than consists largely in disobeying a
legislation. judgment or a court order.
22.Compensation Pachet A compensation package refers The record compensation
package compensatori to all of the benefits that a package is the result of months
u company is providing its of secret negotiations.
employees. A compensation
package includes salary, PTO,
401K contributions and any other
benefits.
23.Constructive Concedierea Also known as constructive The employer was seeking to
dismissal constructivă termination or constructive argue that the resignation
discharge, a constructive constituted a constructive
dismissal occurs when an dismissal.
employee resigns as a result of
the employer creating a hostile
work environment.
24.Continuity of Continuitatea Continuity of employment is the Continuous employment for
employment angajării length of time that an employee the purpose of this Article shall
has worked for their employer be measured from the last date
without a break. of hire with the Employer.
25.Contract Angajat A contract employee is someone She took child-rearing leave,
employee contractual retained by a company for a and in 2002 returned as
specified period of time at a a contract employee.
predetermined rate of pay.
26.Contract of Contract de A contract of employment These conditions must be
employment angajare exists if someone is offered expressly incorporated into the
work in return for wages and contract of employment.
accepts the offer – see also
written terms of employment.
27.Constructive Concedierea Constructive dismissal is when In order to bring a claim of
dismissal constructivă you terminate your contract of constructive dismissal there
employment because of your must be a fundamental breach of
employer’s behaviour. contract by the employer.
28.Continuity of Continuitatea This means the employee’s Some institutions contract the
employment or angajării sau a service or employment is work out to casual labour with
service serviciului unbroken and can help you little continuity and stability for
qualify for certain employment the student.
rights such as redundancy.
29.Cover letter Scrisoare de A cover letter is a letter Cover letters are an often
intenție candidates provide along with overlooked part of the job-
their resume when applying for a hunting process.
job. Within the cover letter, an
applicant can explain why they
are qualified for the job.
30.Critical Skills Permis de A Critical Skills Employment Since most states have laws
Employment angajare a Permit is an employment prohibiting teenagers from
Permit abilităților permit for occupations with an working certain jobs or certain
 critice annual salary above €64,000 hours, it is important to know if
and for some occupations with you will need a work permit.
an annual salary of €32,000 to
€64,000.
31.Custom and Obicei și A term of employment set by Acording to custom and
practice practică normal behaviour in a practice my job description
workplace rather than by formed part of my contract.
legislation or a written
contract. One example is an
informal ten-minute coffee
break at 11am.
32.Deductions Deduceri Deductions are amounts taken The tax deduction limits on
off your pay and listed on your employer contributions to
payslip, for example, PRSI. profit-sharing plans will
increase up to 25 percent of total
employee compensation.
33.Disciplinary Procedura Sets out in writing how the Internal disciplinary
procedure disciplinară employer will deal with the procedures will have to take
alleged shortcomings of an place.
employee.
34.Discrimination Discriminare Treating one person less Discrimination against women
favourably than another is not allowed.
person.
35.Dismissal Concediere This occurs when your contract His dismissal felt permanent,
of employment is ended. If you and she hoped whatever
are dismissed by your business he had with her, it was
employer you may be able to now done.
claim unfair dismissal.
36.Domestic Muncitor A domestic worker is someone She also became general
worker casnic who is employed to work in a secretary of the National Union
private home. of Domestic Workers.
37.Duty of care Taxă de Your employer owes you a We take our responsibilities
îngrijire duty of care to provide a safe very seriously and must be seen
workplace and this is implied to put safety first and exercise a
by law in your contract of proper duty of care.
employment. It means that you
should not have to work in
unsafe or unhealthy conditions.
38.Employee Angajat An employee is someone You defend him because you
works for someone else in work for him and you're a loyal
return for payment. employee, but I'll bet you've
wondered why he's so
unresponsive.
39.Employment Contract de An employment contract is a Mutual consent
contract muncă legal document that lays out the An employment contract may
terms and conditions of be brought to an end by the
employment between a company mutual consent of the parties.
and an employee. It may include
compensation information, a
description of the job and
primary responsibilities,
termination procedures and other
information.
40.Employment Decalajul de An employment gap occurs when An employment gap is a period
gap angajare there is a period of time in of time (months of years) when
between jobs where someone is a job seeker didn't have a job.
unemployed. An employment
gap can be the result of child
leave, career changes, illness,
education or other reasons.
41.Employment Permis de Most non-EEA nationals must Many countries will take no one
permit angajare have an employment permit in for settlement without a work
order to take up employment in permit.
Ireland.
42..Employment Ordin de EROs are negotiated by Joint The Labour Court makes an
Regulation Order reglementare Labour Committees to regulate Employment Regulation
(ERO) a ocupării conditions of employment and Order (ERO) confirming
forței de pay in certain employment proposals submitted to it by a
muncă (ERO) sectors. Joint Labour Committee (JLC).
43.Experience Experienţă Experience refers to a candidate's In the first place she had
prior work history, including past nineteen months' experience of
jobs, volunteer work, skills, sight and sound.
training and responsibilities.
44. Fixed-term Contract pe A fixed-term contract is a She is nervous because
contract termen fix contract of employment which her fixed-term contract ends
ends on an agreed date. soon.
45.Follow-up Urmare A follow-up refers to the act of The journalist decided to follow
calling, emailing or sending a up on the rumours by doing
note after submitting a resume or some initial investigative work
job application. Candidates to discover if the claims were
follow-up to remind employers true or false. 
that they are waiting for a
response and to encourage them
to review their application.
46.Force majeure Concediu de Leave from work for an The company declared force
leave forță majoră employee for urgent reasons majeure on its shipping
because of the illness or injury commitments. 
of a family member.
47. Freedom of Libertatea FOI legislation allows you to In 2004, with Paul Moreira, he
information (FOI) informației access records held by launched a freedom of
(FOI) government departments and information act (FOIA)
certain public bodies. campaign to lobby French
politicians.
48.Freelancer Liber A freelancer is a professional Writing for magazines as
profesionist who is self-employed and works a freelancer can provide a
independently for one or multiple steady income for writers, but it
companies or clients. Freelancers takes research, hard work and
generally set their own payment planning to bring in enough
rates and work schedules. money to make a living in this
line of work.
49. General Permisul Leave from work for an The prospective employer
Employment general de employee for urgent reasons applies for the work permit on
Permit angajare because of the illness or injury behalf of the future employe.
of a family member.
50. Grievance Procedura de This sets out how to complain The grievance procedure has
procedure plângere about something in your commenced and one hearing
employment terms and date was postponed at the
conditions which affects you. instance of defendant.
51. Gross Abatere gravă Blatant misbehaviour at work The carer was fired for gross
misconduct such as assault, misconduct, but police were
stealing, bullying not told.
or harassment.
52.Harassment Hărțuire It is defined as behaviour Her lack of optimism was
“which has the purpose or probably due to her poor
effect of violating a person’s experiences with harassment at
dignity and creating an her previous employment.
intimidating, hostile,
degrading, humiliating or
offensive environment for the
person”.
53.Hiring manager Manager A hiring manager is a person who Depending upon the size and
angajator is responsible for hiring a new structure of your company,
employee to fill a position. They the hiring manager may also
typically are the new employee's be able to provide assistance in
direct manager. resolving the issue. 
54.Holiday Vacanţă A holiday is paid time off work The package includes 20 days'
for rest and recreation. It can paid holiday a year.
mean either annual leave or a
public holiday.
55.Informational An informational interview is An informational
interview designed to help a candidate learn interview refers to a casual
more about a type of job or conversation between a job
industry. People may set up applicant and someone who
informational interviews with works at a company that they
industry professionals to learn want to be a part of.
more about different career paths
and experiences.
56.Internship Stagiu An internship is a period of work The rise of the prestigious but
experience that an employer unpaid internship intersects
offers for a limited period of perfectly with the rise of the
time. Businesses, government boomeranger.
agencies and non-profits often
provide internships to students
and people looking to make a
career change.
57.Jobsharing Partajarea de A type of flexible work where In a job-sharing agreement,
locuri de two people share the same two part-time employees share
muncă employment position. one full-time job.
58.Joint Labour Comitete JLCs regulate conditions of JLCs replaced Trade Boards,
Committees mixte ale employment in certain set up by the British
(JLCs) muncii (JLC) employment sectors. Their Government in 1909.
agreements are called
Employment Regulation
Orders (EROs).
59.Lay off Concediere Lay off is when you are let go Because of falling orders, the
temporară from your job temporarily as company has been forced to lay
your employer has no work for off several hundred workers.
you.
60.Leave Concediu Permission to be absent from I'm going to leave about ten in
work. the morning.
61.Maternity leave Concediu de Maternity leave is leave from A mother will get ordinary
maternitate work for a woman who is maternity leave no matter how
pregnant or who has just given long she has worked for you.
birth.
62.Migrant worker Muncitor Someone who is not a national As a daughter of a migrant
migrant of the country where they are worker, her family was
working. constantly moving, and she
lived in foster homes
intermittently.
63.Minimum wage Salariu minim This is a minimum hourly rate Four months ago the
of pay. Most employees have a government increased the
legal right to the national minimum wage for garden
minimum wage (NMW). workers by one thousand
percent and this elderly man lost
 his job.
64.Night work Munca de Under the Organisation of Mrs. Hull worked the night
noapte Working Time Act 1997 night shift herself when she took over
work means work done the home and found the work
between midnight and 7am. not arduous.
65.Notice Înștiințare Notice is an announcement by I didn't notice how far I was
the employee or employer that wandering this evening.
the employment contract will
end on a certain date.
66.Offer letter Scrisoare de An offer letter is a letter that an  I take great pleasure in
ofertă employer gives to a potential receiving your offer letter dated
employee, offering them a September 10, 2020.
position. The offer letter typically
includes the date, benefits and
terms of employment.
67.Onboarding Performare Onboarding is the process Organizational Socialization
through which new employees or Onboarding are both parts of
acquire the necessary knowledge the assimilation process.
and skills to be effective
members of the organization.
68..Open-ended Contract cu This is a contract of The contract is open-ended.We
contract durată employment which continues are not willing to enter into
nedeterminată until the employer or employee open-ended discussions.
ends it.
69.Outsourcing Externalizare Outsourcing is the process of She listed her former teacher as
hiring another person or a reference when she applied
organization to perform a service for the job.
that is or could be done internally.
70.Overtime Peste orar Overtime is work done outside I worked two hours of overtime
normal working hours. last week.
71.Parental leave Concediu Parental leave is leave from A recent law (2002) has
parental work for parents of children introduced the paternity leave of
aged under 12 (16 if the child 11 days to be taken within 4
has a disability). months following the baby's
birth.
72.Part-time Angajat cu An employee whose normal We have created a special
worker jumatate de hours of work are less than category for part-time
norma the normal hours of work of a workers.
comparable full-time
employee.
73.Paternity leave Concediu de Paternity leave is leave from Fathers must also have the right
paternitate work for a parent (other than to two weeks' paternity leave
the mother) following the birth on full pay.
or adoption of a child.
74.PAYE PAYE PAYE (Pay As You Earn) is the The obligation to operate PAYE
(Plătește pe system where tax is deducted applies where the asset in its
măsură ce from your wages by your enhanced state is a readily
câștigi) employer and sent to the convertible asset.
Revenue Commissioners.
75.Pension Pensie A pension is a payment from We had full medical insurance
the State or a private company and a pension program.
to someone who is retired.
76.Probationary Perioadă de A specified period at the start After a six-month probationary
period probă of an employment to see if the period, her position was
employee is suitable for the confirmed.
job.
77.PRSA PRSA-uri PRSAs (Personal Retirement A Personal Retirement
(Conturi de Savings Accounts) are a type Savings Account (PRSA) is a
economii of pension arrangement. type of savings account
pentru pensii introduced to the Irish market in
personale) 2003.
78.Public holidays Sărbători There are 9 public holidays The day was a public holiday
legale each year, for example, and over 70 % of registered
Christmas Day. The statutory voters cast their ballots.
public holiday entitlement for
employees is: either a paid day
off, an extra day of annual
leave or a day's pay.
79.Redundancy Redundanţă Redundancy is when your job That the Baltic Stream must be a
ceases to exist because of lack surface current, because it
of work or your company originates from a redundancy
closing down. of fresh water.
80.References Referințe References are a list of people She listed her former teacher as
who can speak to a candidate's a reference when she applied
credentials and qualifications for for the job.
a role. They should be able to
answer questions about the
candidate's work history, skills,
abilities and work style.
81.Rest period Perioada de A rest period is any time that is It requires a rest period during
odihnă not working time. Winter.
82.Self-employed Liber A self-employed person is Many self-employed people are
profesionist someone who carries on their heavily taxed.
own business and is not an
employee.
83.Sectoral Ordin An SEO is made following a The recommendation for a new
Employment sectorial de recommendation from the SEO for construction workers
Order (SEO) angajare Labour Court on matters of follows detailed discussions.
 (SEO) pay, pension or sick pay
scheme for workers in an
economic sector.
84.Sexual Hărțuire Unwanted behaviour of a But what Lydia suggested he
harassment sexuală sexual nature that affects the was up to was the worst kind of
dignity of women and men at criminal sexual harassment.
work – see also harassment.
85.Short time Timp This is where your pay or They have been enlightened
prescurtat hours reduced to less than half greatly in a short time.
your normal weekly amount
because there is less work to be
done.
86.Soft skills Abilități Soft skills are a set of The office regularly
ușoare behaviors and personality traits conducted soft skill workshops
that help facilitate human and pre-placement training
connections in and out of the programmes.
workplace. They are essential
for building relationships,
successfully leading teams and
creating opportunities for
advancement.
87.Specified Contract cu A contract of employment Many employees work under
purpose contract scop which ends when a specific specified purpose contracts in
specificat task is completed, or when a our company.
specific event occurs.
88.Statutory Drept legal Legal right governed by law. There is however, a statutory
entitlement entitlement to eight weeks paid
Maternity leave.
89.Temp Angajat Temp is short for a temporary As a temporary worker, Mr.
temporar employee. Temps are usually Hirano was technically the
hired for short periods of time employee of a staffing agency
while a full-time employee is on
vacation or leave. They may also
be hired as additional help in an
office during a particularly busy
season.
90.Temp-to-hire Angajare Temp-to-hire refers to when  It hired Samuel as
temporară someone is hired on a temporary a temporary worker to do the
basis but on the assumption that job.
they may possibly become a full-
time employee depending on the
quality of their work and
budgetary allowances.
91.Trade union Sindicat A trade union is an The strikes reflected a
organisation which negotiates longstanding wariness of the
 with an employer for better pay trade union leadership.
and conditions.
92.Transferable Aptitudini Transferrable skills are abilities However, much of the work
skills transferabile that a candidate has learned in on transferable skills has
earlier work environments that largely failed to provide an
can be used in other positions or approach which has gained
industries, even if they aren't widespread acceptance.
directly related.
93.Transfer of Transfer de A transfer of business happens
1. The parties create the
business afaceri when a company is taken over atmosphere where the big-
by another or when two bucks business transactions are
companies join together. made.

94.Unfair Concediere If your employer terminates 1. The common law

dismissal nedreapta your contract of afforded the employee virtually
employment, your dismissal is no protection against unfair
presumed to be unfair unless dismissal.
your employer can justify it
on fair grounds.
95.Victimisation Victimizare Victimisation or penalisation1. They are driven to
is unfair treatment of anonymity only because of the
an employee by an employer fear of victimisation.
because of some action the
worker has taken, such as
claiming the minimum wage.
96.Wages Salarii Wages are the money paid to1. They are in enough
you by your employer for demand today to receive the
your work. This money is also union wage.
known as pay, salary or
remuneration. 
97.White-Collar Guler alb Describes mid-level to high- In april 1908, we cut our white-
level jobs, usually, where collar ranks by seven thousand
workers often work in an office people .
environment at desks or
cubicles on computers doing
no manual labor. Also
describes the workers in a
white-collar line of work.
98.Working hours Ore de lucru This means the time when you
1. He added that some
are working. For most adjustments will be made to
employees the legal maximum the working hours.
average working week is 48
hours.
99. Written terms Condiții de Although your contract of 1. Canada has the third
of employment angajare employment does not have to largest video game industry
 scrise be written, you have a legal in terms of
right to a written statement of employment numbers.
certain employment terms.
100.X-Factor Factorul X A particular trait, attribute, This is the right time to invest in
talent, or skill that sets a Gold and Real Estate. It may
candidate apart from all the turn out to be an X-Factor. 
rest.
101. Zero-hours Contract zero A zero-hours contract is a Until age 65, he maintained
contract ore type of employment contract a zero hour contract at the
where the employee makes institute, and then returned to
themselves available for work his research on wood anatomy.
for a specified number of
hours and get paid for a
proportion of those hours even
if not required to work.