Matching Pairs Work nounsOnline version ------------ by Evgenia Bakina 1 employer, We need a reference from your former employer. 2 commute, It's exhausting commuting from Brighton to London every day. 3 rise, a sudden temperature rise 4 salary, She's on quite a good/decent salary in her present job. 5 staff, There are over a hundred staff in the company. 6 raise, She asked the boss for a raise. 7 sack, Hundreds of workers are to be sacked. 8 fire, She was fired after she was caught stealing from her employer. 9 employee, Laws exist to stop companies exploiting their employees. 10 wage, The job pays very low wages. 11 pay, It's a nice job but the pay is appalling. 12 gain, The mayor has gained a lot of support from the teacher's union. 13 be made redundant, To keep the company alive, half the workforce is being made redundant. a person or organization that employs people the money you receive for doing a job to get something that is useful, that gives you an advantage, or that is in some way positive the group of people who work for an organization to force someone to leave their job an increase an increase in the amount that you are paid for the work you do having lost your job because your employer no longer needs you someone who is paid to work for someone else a fixed amount of money agreed every year as pay for an employee, usually paid directly into his or her bank account every month a particular amount of money that is paid, usually every week, to an employee, especially one who does work that needs physical skills or strength, rather than a job needing a college education to make the same journey regularly between work and home to remove someone from their job, either because they have done something wrong or badly, or as a way of saving the cost of employing them
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