noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a contract of employment (also an employment contract)
▪ Make sure you fully understand your contract of employment.
an advertising/employment/travel etc agency
▪ a local housing agency
employment agency
full employment
▪ rising prosperity and full employment
job/employment discrimination (=not giving someone a job because of their race, sex etc)
▪ Progress has been made in eliminating job discrimination.
sb’s place of work/employmentformal
▪ Please give the address of your place of work.
seasonal workers/employment etc
▪ seasonal jobs in the tourist industry
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
alternative
▪ The policy of the labour exchanges towards boys who wanted to come out of farming was to refuse them alternative employment.
▪ Little refused the offer of the alternative employment.
▪ The 20 members of staff were offered alternative employment but accepted redundancy payments instead.
▪ If you are wrongfully dismissed, you should therefore seek alternative employment at the earliest opportunity.
▪ As well as demographic trends these include such social and economic factors as alternative opportunities for employment and the supply of places.
▪ Equally, the right to a redundancy payment is subject to the rules about offers of alternative employment mentioned above.
▪ No alternative employment within the school or other university department could be identified.
▪ Naturally the employee is under a duty to mitigate his loss by finding suitable alternative employment.
full
▪ The contribution of this to full employment is obvious, particularly at times when demand in the economy is generally low.
▪ The role of Churchill in the development of full employment policy is greater than has generally been supposed.
▪ The report was necessarily a compromise, given the opposition to a powerful full employment policy.
▪ That sounds like motherhood and apple pie until we examine what full employment really means.
▪ The Beveridge report brought the topic of full employment into public prominence.
▪ This would cause a rise in the money wage and so restore full employment.
▪ Deviations from a state of overall full employment must be randomly distributed around a mean of zero.
▪ Given sufficient time with other things remaining unchanged, prices and wages would eventually be adjusted and full employment may be restored.
gainful
▪ It occurred to him that it might be easier to find gainful employment in Cornwall.
▪ How does he survive without gainful employment?
▪ In each decade of the twentieth century, fewer men over 65 have been entered in the censuses as in gainful employment.
▪ Some of us actually have gainful employment.
▪ When in low spirits, seek gainful employment.
▪ Indeed, it has even become fashionable for women to choose dependency by repudiating ambition and gainful employment once they have children.
▪ The potential for a recession across most regions of the world will have ramifications for the prospects of expatriates in gainful employment.
▪ Both surveys showed that for many people poverty was a way of life even when they were in gainful employment.
high
▪ Many of these changes have been directly related to progressive taxation, transfer payments and high levels of employment.
▪ Some students may write about the avoidance of a major depression, others about the decision to focus on high employment.
▪ There is no way that we can sustain high employment unless we are competitive in inflation levels.
▪ They prepare simultaneously for both higher education and employment.
▪ As a consequence, almost every economy benefited from rapid growth and high employment.
▪ Equally important, it would erect ladders to both higher education and employment, not to just one or the other.
▪ And to top it all, it has pledged to maintain high employment and an annual economic growth rate of 1.9 percent.
▪ These graduates have the highest employment rate, the association said.
local
▪ The private sector was to be harnessed to stabilize - if not increase - local employment.
▪ Sources of Additional Information Information about career opportunities as a budget analyst may be available from your State or local employment service.
▪ This may benefit consumers and local employment.
▪ We believe in local employment initiatives in housing, schools and hospitals.
▪ This is having serious consequences for local employment, as it has done elsewhere.
▪ They get to find out what is going on in the local employment scene.It helps them to make realistic career choices.
▪ Unemployment Unemployment rates arguably provide the most sensitive indicators of local employment opportunities.
▪ Check professional journals, local newspaper employment pages and register with good recruitment agencies-check these on the Internet. 10.
manufacturing
▪ Electronics accounted for 21 percent of aggregate manufacturing employment in 1991, against only 7 percent in 1981.
▪ Most of the areas with low female activity rates also had low densities of manufacturing employment.
▪ This work attempts to explain the rural shift in manufacturing employment.
▪ Why did it take so long for manufacturing employment to level out?
▪ As has already been indicated this considerable additional development of land was happening while manufacturing employment was falling.
▪ It is necessary, for example, to distinguish between manufacturing employment and service employment, both in the private and public sectors.
paid
▪ Usually, each will have some paid employment outside the home and each may have his or her career.
▪ Moreover, housework was a highly privatised activity which was not as well regarded and was much less interesting than paid employment.
▪ After a period of full-time child-care, many women return to paid employment on a part-time basis.
▪ Women are less likely to be in paid employment than men.
▪ As is typical of most women's paid employment, this work is not considered particularly skilled and wages are low.
▪ The highest spending is amongst families with more members in paid employment, and lowest amongst pensioner families.
▪ The contribution of paid employment to pensioners income has diminished due to the trend to early retirement.
▪ For a third of the women these hardships were temporarily alleviated when they obtained new paid employment.
public
▪ The scale of public sector employment is very considerable.
▪ Manpower training and public employment programs were consolidated in 1973 into the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act.
▪ Brett spoke out firmly on the question of discrimination in housing, electoral laws and public employment.
▪ Proposition 209 bars preferences based on race and gender in public employment, contracting and education in state and local government.
▪ Certainly social statistics flourished as never before, their practitioners finding plentiful public employment.
▪ Restaurants, household and other personal services and less elegant public employments are all their conceded domain.
total
▪ By 1961 total employment on the estate stood at 5000.
▪ He predicts that blue-collar jobs will have shrunk to less than 2 percent of total employment.
▪ As it was, the proletariat grew considerably faster than total employment.
▪ Maryland lost 8, 888 nonfarm jobs in November, bringing total employment down to 2. 59 million people.
▪ Between 1975 and 1984 total employment in the electronics sectors declined by 19 percent.
▪ Since hazardous jobs represent a small part of total employment, these workers are unrepresentative of the general population.
▪ Outside agriculture the number of self-employed actually grew by 1 million, while falling substantially as a proportion of total employment.
■ NOUN
agency
▪ One Harvard dealer had registered with an employment agency which stupidly sent his curriculum vitae to Harvard.
▪ For several months hence, Harvard dealers were reluctant to use employment agencies.
▪ Inspiration for the scheme came from Bristol's thriving employment agency that has been in existence for 14 years.
▪ Soon he was showing them to the leading head-hunters in employment agencies.
▪ Via a back to nursing course organised by a nursing employment agency.
▪ Courses may also be advertised in local jobcentres and public libraries or on the display boards of local employment agencies.
▪ Office Angels is an employment agency.
contract
▪ Put simply, you are constructively dismissed if your employer breaks an important term of your employment contract.
▪ When an employee is working without a formal employment contract, the terms of an employee handbook may be contractually binding.
▪ A growing feature of the employment contract over the years has been the provision of occupational pension schemes for retirement and sickness.
▪ Employees who opt for the scheme will be expected to revert to their former employment contract once their children reach 14.
▪ Intellectual property: Restrictive intellectual property clauses in employment contracts or restrictive covenants could force the brightest free workers to walk.
▪ He had a written employment contract, but it did not refer to his place of work.
▪ They are employed individually, and their employment contracts - real or implied - are individual.
▪ Holidays with pay are another feature of the employment contract.
growth
▪ The problem was compounded by employment growth in London.
▪ Though employment growth is down, the area is still attracting health care, high tech, banking and sports-related industries.
▪ We do not have a coherent training and development strategy linked to employment growth.
▪ Net employment growth means fewer jobless claims for the government and higher revenue from payroll taxes.
▪ However, the geography of service employment growth is less uneven than that of manufacturing decline.
▪ At the same time, Wal-Mart touts its employment growth but defines fall-time work as twenty-eight hours or more.
▪ Organisational studies Data processing has been a key employment growth area in Britain over the past decade.
▪ She predicted that 1996 will damp employment growth in New Jersey.
law
▪ Trade unions have a statutory right of notice and governors must always act in accordance with employment law.
▪ Any company doing federal contract work is absolutely bound by affirmative action requirements and equal employment laws to cover you.
▪ Existing employment law in turn has failed to protect the employment expectations of disabled people.
▪ All stand to gain from such legislation and comparative employment law can be used to empower disabled people.
▪ This, however, must be looked at with regard to aspects of employment law.
▪ In employment law three rules provide substantial assistance to an employee.
▪ The question of unfair dismissal figures too often in employment law to leave the operation of Clause 8 to chance.
▪ Their demands included improved salaries, the application of certain employment laws, and state payment for uniforms.
level
▪ As the employment level rises above that, more and more laws kick in.
▪ It minimises uncertainty and helps to anticipate changes for example in demography, social factors, values and employment levels. 3.
▪ He found no difference in employment levels.
▪ For example, because of employment levels there is currently an emphasis on earlier retirement from and later entry into the working world.
▪ Those predictions which have been made about the impact of new technology on employment levels have come from two types of analysis.
▪ This time the equilibrium level of income is above the full employment level and so can not actually be attained.
lifetime
▪ Employees are sometimes shareholders through stock-ownership schemes, but are mainly taken care of through labour laws and guarantees of lifetime employment.
▪ But workers here are accustomed to lifetime employment and see the provisions as a major threat to their job security.
▪ If lifetime employment is so limited, to what extent have labour unions fought to widen its coverage?
▪ Already the Pioneer Electronics Corporation has disregarded its lifetime employment policy by demanding that 35 mid-level managers accept early retirement.
▪ Far better, with the demise of lifetime employment, to switch to a notion of lifetime employability.
opportunity
▪ Libertarian emphasis on the radicalizing effect of restricted employment opportunities, too, appears exaggerated.
▪ She said she reported the incident to the company's equal employment opportunity manager, who took no immediate action.
▪ The training and employment opportunities available to young people have declined and benefit has been reduced.
▪ We will: Attack unemployment by creating new employment opportunities.
▪ Modernization and industrialization have contributed to later marriages, for example, as have improvements in educational and employment opportunities for women.
▪ A smaller labour market creates a window of employment opportunity for minority groups, including those who are disabled.
policy
▪ The role of Churchill in the development of full employment policy is greater than has generally been supposed.
▪ Its legacy: changes in employment policies, more security measures and more money from the legislature for improvements.
▪ The report was necessarily a compromise, given the opposition to a powerful full employment policy.
▪ Some organizations consider their employment policies to be a private matter of contract between the company and its employees.
▪ Social and employment policy must reflect these new realities.
▪ The social action programme is another example of the Labour party's naive employment policies.
▪ The evidence is strong, however, that he put his weight behind a full employment policy.
▪ They signed a co-operation agreement on employment policy, training, and wages policy.
report
▪ In its employment report, the Labor Department revised higher the November job growth total to 166, 000.
▪ Many investors concluded it would get worse, based on a very strong December employment report Friday.
▪ For example, the blizzard hit during the same week the government surveys workers and employers to compile the January employment report.
service
▪ Ample evidence is provided to show that the structure of the labour force in post-war United States has shifted towards service employment.
▪ Those who place permanent or temporary personnel are more susceptible to layoffs than State job service employment interviewers.
▪ The region was booming, particularly in service employment, where 80 percent of the additional jobs had been found.
▪ However, the geography of service employment growth is less uneven than that of manufacturing decline.
▪ Why has service employment risen rapidly in the post-war period?
▪ It is necessary, for example, to distinguish between manufacturing employment and service employment, both in the private and public sectors.
▪ Union membership continued to rise steadily, especially in service employment, to reach a peak of over 13 million in 1979.
▪ What possibilities exist for the expansion of health service employment at the Royal Victoria Hospital? 3.
status
▪ The sample is being selected from an earlier survey which examined household structure, work and histories and current employment status.
▪ It all mounts up fast, particularly if more than one worker has questionable employment status.
▪ All those who retired prematurely were forced by redundancy to make a decision about their future employment status.
▪ She knew my employment status was precarious.
▪ Such conflicts may increase the risk of depression but be resolved by a subsequent change in employment status.
▪ A comprehensive package of benefits would be guaranteed for all legal residents in the state, regardless of employment status.
▪ Table 7.1 summarises the information available on the employment status of information engineering research students in September 1984.
■ VERB
continue
▪ Weekly Benefit would be payable under item 5 as the Policyholder is unable to continue with his disclosed employment.
▪ Funds are to continue the employment of a family case manager.
▪ Forty staff chose to relocate to the Bristol area and continued their employment with Sun Life in the head office.
▪ Make school attendance and a minimum grade-point average conditions for continued employment, even offering tutoring for those who need it.
▪ As a result, those who continue in employment after retirement age are less likely to experience poverty.
▪ Tenured teachers have a property interest in continued employment and therefore are always entitled to due process protections prior to dismissal.
▪ Ironworkers told one of their officials that they would stop working if the woodworkers were continued in employment.
▪ He appealed, and was reinstated by the privy Council, but was unable to continue his employment for long.
create
▪ In the 1960s the Conservative council made an effort to create employment.
▪ We will: Attack unemployment by creating new employment opportunities.
▪ A smaller labour market creates a window of employment opportunity for minority groups, including those who are disabled.
▪ In summary To summarize, two positive images of elderly people were created by the employment debate.
▪ The idea is to create employment until the total unemployment is brought down to half a million.
▪ The Government claim building the line will create direct employment for 5,000 people and off-site supply jobs for about 25,000 others.
▪ Those with assets exceeding £500,000 can also apply, as can businessmen willing to invest over £150,000 and create new employment.
▪ As I said a moment ago, there is only one way to create long-term stable employment.
find
▪ At the time of the research, children could generally find employment in the area without leaving home.
▪ Economists studying states that have raised their minimum-wage levels have found that employment actually expanded.
▪ The series narrates his attempts to find employment.
▪ Once here, most receive public assistance such as welfare and food stamps until they find employment.
▪ It occurred to him that it might be easier to find gainful employment in Cornwall.
▪ Chances of finding employment are in turn closely dependent on mastery of modern knowledge.
▪ The research aims to study the means by which redundant workers find employment and the ease or difficulty of doing so.
▪ Britain's black community - especially young people unable to find employment - is becoming increasingly disillusioned and restless.
increase
▪ An increase in the real wage will reduce employment and a decrease in the real wage will increase employment.
▪ They said they will cooperate with labor and business to increase employment.
▪ They make trading simpler and reduce the associated costs leading to increased employment and better quality goods for consumers.
▪ After the 1989 federal minimum-wage increase, they found that Texas fast food restaurants increased employment but prices were unaffected.
▪ This, Clarke and Morrison believe, is a response to the need to increase employment and to maintain standards of living.
▪ But increased hours and employment tell only part of the story.
▪ The equilibrium wage paid by employers now increases to W2 and employment falls to L2.
▪ Manufacturing employment was increasing, but employment in services was going up even faster.
offer
▪ In some instances members may wish to offer employment, perhaps for a month or two, at an agreed wage.
▪ The 20 members of staff were offered alternative employment but accepted redundancy payments instead.
▪ The 335 staff will be able to transfer or will be offered other employment with Amtrak.
▪ We must have the freedom to make our mills successful, so that we can offer the lower orders employment.
▪ Many graduates and diplomates have in the past been offered their first permanent employment through contacts made during their industrial placement.
▪ Prison must offer training for employment, not for crime.
▪ One view sees retirement as no more than a form of compulsory unemployment within an economy which can no longer offer full employment.
pay
▪ So, if a person's paid employment lasts for forty years, she will need to have thirty-six qualifying years.
▪ Class 1 contributions are paid by workers in employment and are deducted from their pay at the statutory rates.
▪ In the early 1970s only 7.5 % of married women were in paid employment.
▪ The hon. Gentleman should be ashamed of the lip service that he has paid to employment by continuing to outline such policies.
▪ Although most of them were being paid so little that employment had become a farce, an irrelevance.
provide
▪ That is the need to provide employment for prisoners.
▪ His embrace of popular culture extended to the movie musicals of the time, which provided lucrative employment.
▪ To make taffy, to advertise taffy, to provide employment, to earn a profit, to inspire Otto Rossler?
▪ Departments waged paper war on each other; if nothing else it provided employment.
▪ The venture could also provide productive, nonfarm employment for enterprising Vicosinos who might otherwise migrate out of the community.
▪ The new power station will provide employment for around 400 people in construction.
▪ The compromise provides aid for children and gives counties the option of providing parents with employment or other services.
seek
▪ If you are wrongfully dismissed, you should therefore seek alternative employment at the earliest opportunity.
▪ By so doing they have sought to protect domestic employment, the balance of payments and so forth.
▪ The moment the individual seeks employment in an organization is the moment a compromise begins.
▪ When in low spirits, seek gainful employment.
▪ Immigration includes both people seeking permanent settlement and those seeking temporary employment who want to circulate back and forth.
▪ The Bill sought to prohibit employment discrimination against qualified disabled persons on the ground of their disability.
▪ The extra experience gained during this year places graduates in a very favourable position when they come to seek permanent employment.
▪ Off-farm income was also limited, in consequence many farmers' sons left home to seek employment elsewhere.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
gainful employment/work/activity
▪ Both surveys showed that for many people poverty was a way of life even when they were in gainful employment.
▪ How does he survive without gainful employment?
▪ In each decade of the twentieth century, fewer men over 65 have been entered in the censuses as in gainful employment.
▪ Indeed, it has even become fashionable for women to choose dependency by repudiating ambition and gainful employment once they have children.
▪ It occurred to him that it might be easier to find gainful employment in Cornwall.
▪ Some of us actually have gainful employment.
▪ The potential for a recession across most regions of the world will have ramifications for the prospects of expatriates in gainful employment.
▪ When in low spirits, seek gainful employment.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A Japanese company plans to set up a factory in the area, so this should provide some employment for local people.
▪ Are you in full-time employment, Mr Edwards?
▪ How many times were you promoted during your employment at the company?
▪ I have not yet signed a contract of employment.
▪ Steve's still looking for full-time employment.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Deviations from a state of overall full employment must be randomly distributed around a mean of zero.
▪ Following the end of cloth-making, the mill buildings were let out to a number of tenants, providing some employment.
▪ It is this extra spending which, given full employment and consequent constant number of transactions, pushes up the price level.
▪ Part-time employment was unchanged at 2. 07 million.
▪ Proposition 209 bars preferences based on race and gender in public employment, contracting and education in state and local government.
▪ Such training is advantageous in gaining permanent employment in the field.
▪ The employment commission reviewed the request and said the prevailing wage for the job was $ 59, 000 a year.
▪ The fact that an increasing number of women want paid employment has also placed further strain on caring arrangements.