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Employment

Academic tenure

Indefinite academic appointment

System of employment

Blue-collar worker

Working-class person who performs manual labor

Business networking

Forming professional relationships between people, businesses, or groups

An individual's journey through learning, work, and other aspects of life

Labour arrangement where the employer must hire unionised members

Collective bargaining

Negotiations between employers and a group of employees

Contingent work

Type of employment relationship involving non-permanent freelance work with payment based on piece work

Form of intermittent, unpaid, unfree labour

Pastime or profession that requires particular skills and knowledge of skilled work

Curriculum vitae

Summary of career

Lowering of skill levels by new technology

Division of labour

Separation of tasks in any system so that participants may specialise

Domestic worker

Person who works within the employer's household

Employee benefits

Non-wage compensation provided to employees in addition to normal wages or salaries

Relationship between the employee and the employer

Employment agency

Organization which matches employers to employees

Equal pay for equal work

Concept of labor rights that individuals in the same workplace be given equal pay

Escalation clause

Clause in a contract adjusting costs to external factors

Survey conducted with an individual leaving an organisation

Practice of hiring more workers than are needed to perform a given job, or to adopt work procedures which appear pointless, complex and time-consuming merely to employ additional workers

Work people are employed in against their will

Person working in a country other than one of which they are a citizen

Strike action in which a substantial proportion of the total labour force in a city, region, or country participates

Golden parachute

Agreement providing significant compensation if someone is fired, such as due to a merger

Industrial relations

Study of the relationship between employers, employees and others

Industrial unionism

Labor union organizing model

Interview for a job

Mediates the relationship between workers, employers, trade unions and the government

Involuntary termination of employment of an employee due to business concerns

Lockout (industry)

Temporary work stoppage or denial of employment initiated by the management of a company during a labor dispute

Guidance relationship

Person who migrates to pursue work

Lowest wage which can be paid legally in a state for working

Occupational injury

Bodily damage resulting from working, resulting from exposure to occupational hazards, such as temperature, noise, insect or animal bites, blood-borne pathogens, aerosols, hazardous chemicals, radiation, and occupational burnout

Transnational relocation of business processes in the aim of enhancing efficience

Contracting internal tasks to an external organization

Parental leave is a family policy measure which an employee can take advantage of for the education of his or her children

Single-equation economic model relating wages to unemployment

Form of protest in which people gather outside a place of business

When employees share in the company's profits

Process of attracting, selecting and appointing candidates to a job or other organization

Business document

Point where a person ceases employment permanently

Remuneration paid by an employer to an employee periodically, rather than based on actual time worked

Salting (union organizing)

Labor union tactic

Shift work (disambiguation)

Topics referred to by the same term

Work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work

Two-factor theory

Psychological theory of motivation

People without work and actively seeking work

Unemployment benefits

Payments made by authorized bodies to unemployed people

Wage (disambiguation)

Topics referred to by the same term

Term describing dependence on wages or a salary

White-collar worker

Social class; person who performs intellectual labor

Work (human activity)

Activities performed as a means of support

Period of time that an individual spends at paid occupational labor

Workweek and weekend

Parts of the week devoted to labor and rest, respectively