U. VON KUNHARDT I. LLISTOSELLA- MATZKY ENGLISH GERMAN SWEDISH SPANISH FRENCH ELSEVIER in five languages English, German, Swedish, Spanish and French compiled by ULLA VON KUNHARDT Bonn, W. Germany and INGRID LLISTOSELLA-MATZKY Cologne, W. Germany ELSEVIER Amsterdam — Oxford — New York — Tokyo 1988 ELSEVIER SCIENCE PUBLISHERS B.V. Sara Burgerhartstraat 25 P.O. Box 211, 1000 AE Amsterdam, The Netherlands Distributors for the United States and Canada: ELSEVIER SCIENCE PUBLISHING COMPANY INC. 52, Vanderbilt Avenue New York, NY 10017, U.S.A. REF 331.03,K962e Kunhardt, Ulla von Elsevier's dictionary of the labour market in Libran of Congress Cataloging-in -Publication Data Kunhardt, Ulla von. Elsevier's dictionary of the labour market in five languages, English, German, Swedish, Spanish, and French. English, French. German, Spanish, and Swedish. Bibliography: p. 1. Industrial relations—Dictionaries—Polgylot. 2. Dictionaries, Polyglot. I. Llistosella-Matzky, Ingrid. II. Title. HD4839.K86 1988 331’.03 87-24529 ISBN 0-444-42884-4 ISBN 0-444-42884-4 © Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., 1988 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher, Elsevier Science Publishers B.V./Science & Technology Division, P.O. Box 330, 1000 AH Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Special regulations for readers in the USA - This publication has been registered with the Copy¬ right Clearance Center Inc. (CCC), Salem, Massachusetts. Information can be obtained from the CCC about conditions under which photocopies of parts of this publication may be made in the USA. All other copyright questions, including photocopying outside of the USA, should be referred to the publisher. Printed in The Netherlands Electronic data processing: Büro für Satztechnik W. Meyer KG Weissensberg, W. Germany S.P. PUBLIC LIBRARY V PREFACE This specialized dictionary is intended to be a help to all those who work within or are involved with the sometimes very complicated field of labour relations: trade unionists and employee representatives in the broadest sense of the word, businessmen, interpreters and translators. As international cooperation in this field grows closer and becomes more and more important, fast and easy under¬ standing assumes a vital role. Unfortunately, the organizational systems differ so much from one country to the other, mostly due to historical reasons, that it is often very difficult to translate expressions from one language into the other. This dictionary, which is based on terminology that has largely been collected in the course of the authors’ practical work, is intended to help solve this problem. The authors wish to express their sincerest thanks to the following persons for their valuable linguistic and professional help and advice: Monique Bauschert, Carol Davies, Roland Ekström, M.E. Guillen Nijssen, Alexander Maisner. Ulla von Kunhardt Ingrid Llistosella-Matzky ■ VII GUIDE TO THE USE OF THE DICTIONARY The dictionary is divided into two sections. The first section, the “Basic table”, lists the English entries in alphabetical order. Each entry is followed by its equivalents in German, Swedish, Spanish and French. These equivalents are listed alphabetically in four separate indexes, which together form the second section of the dictionary. Each entry carries a number which refers to the rel¬ evant entry in the basic table.