Work and employment

Read the definitions carefully and match them with the right word.

a person who is learning and practicing the skills of a particular job

• Minimum wage

• Flextime

• Apprentice

• Overtime

a system in which different groups of workers work somewhere at different times of the day and night.

• Maternity leave

• Redundancy payment

• Shift work

• Trainee

a period in which a woman is legally allowed to be absent from work in the weeks before and after she gives birth.

• Apprentice

• Maternity leave

• Overtime

• Part-time

A person who is learning by practical experience under skilled workers.

• Minimum wage

• Part-time

• Redundancy payment

• Trainee

a system of working in which people work a set number of hours within a fixed period of time, but can change the time they start or finish work

• Flextime

• Minimum wage

• Maternity leave

• Redundancy payment

time worked in addition to your usual job hours

• Flextime

• Trainee

• Overtime

• Internship

money that a company pays to workers who have lost their jobs because they are no longer needed

• Flextime

• Redundancy payment

• Apprentice

• Shift work

the smallest amount of money that employers are legally allowed to pay someone who works for them

• Redundancy payment

• Part-time

• Internship

• Overtime

If you work part-time or do part-time work, you work for only some of the day or the week

• Trainee

• Minimum wage

• Shift work

• Part-time

a period of time during which someone works for a company or organization in order to get experience of a particular type of work

• Internship

• Overtime

• Minimum wage

• Maternity leave