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