Study the case and make a decision.
Discuss the matter in pairs (one being Karen and the other Kathleen) to make the final decision and then present it to the group.
Karen Mitchell is 19 years old and has worked in the Administration section of Taylor Electronics for the past six months. She is employed as a wages clerk[9]. Two other women also work in the same section – Betty, the section supervisor and Kathleen, the second wages clerk. Kathleen is 26, has two young children and has worked in the wages office for nearly a year. Taylor Electronics have just introduced a computerized payroll system. All the employees are now paid directly via their bank accounts at the end of each month. Last Monday the Chief Accountant interviewed all the wages staff and informed them that, as of the beginning of next month the payroll system was going to be widely used only Betty would be able to remain a member of the full-time staff. He pointed out that neither Karen nor Kathleen had employment protection as they have worked for the company for less than two years. However, in good faith, the company is ready to offer them the following options: · They could each work part-time independently · They could job-share · They could offer their services freelance and charge their own fees to the company (and use their spare hours to hire their services to other organizations). Kathleen prefers the idea of job sharing but Karen doesn’t agree. She likes the idea of freelance [10]as this will give her more flexibility and possibly enable her to earn more money. The two of them have until Monday morning to make a decision.
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Section VOCABULARY
Section GLOSSARY manager [ ] – someone whose job is to manage part or all of a company or other organization; manageress [ ] – oldfashioned a woman who is in charge of a business, especially a shop or restaurant; director [ ] – 1. one of the committee of top managers who control a company; 2. someone who is in charge of a particular activity or organisation; executive [ ] – someone who has an important job as a manager in a company or business; managing director /executive officer – someone who is in charge of a large company or organization; non-executive director – one of the directors of a company who gives advice, but doesn’t have any responsibility for how the company is managed; financial director/finance manager – someone who is in charge of the financial department; sales director/manager – someone who is in charge of the sales department; personnel director/manager – someone who is in charge of personnel department; treasurer – [ ] – someone who is in charge of the money for an organization; accountant [ ] - someone whose job is to keep and check financial accounts; lawyer [ ] - someone whose job is to advise people about laws, write formal agreements, or represent people in court; solicitor [ ] – a type of lawyer in Britain who gives advice, does the necessary work when property is sold and bought, works mainly from the office but may also appear in courts, defending people and businesses, especially in the lower courts of law; barrister [ ] – a lawyer in Britain who can argue cases in the higher law courts; designer [ ] – someone whose job is to make plans or patterns for clothes, furniture, equipment etc: a dress designer; secretary [ ] – someone who works in an office typing letters, keeping records, arranging meetings etc.; chartered [ ] secretary /principal secretary – a secretary who has successfully completed special examinations to be in charge of some special business affairs of a company or other organization; engineer [ ] – someone who designs the way roads, bridges, machines etc.; receptionist [ ] – someone whose job is to welcome and deal with people arriving at a hotel or office, visiting a doctor etc. lecturer [ ] – someone who gives a lecture: a brilliant lecturer.
Section PROVERBS AND SAYINGS · No pain, no gain. – Без труда не выловишь и рыбку из пруда. · Business before pleasure. – Делу время , потехе час . · If you want a thing well done, do it yourself. – Хочешь , чтоб дело было сделано хорошо – делай его сам . Свой глаз – алмаз. · To take up everything is to accomplish nothing. - За все браться – ничего не сделать . · Well begun is half done. – Хорошо начатое наполовину сделано. · To work with the left hand. – Работать спустя рукава . · To be busy as a bee. – Крутиться как белка в колесе . · To know something like the palm on one hand. – Знать как свои пять пальцев . · By fits and starts. – Рывками, судорожно, нерегулярно. · You never know what you can do till you try. –Никогда не знаешь, что умеешь, пока не приступишь к делу. · The labourer is worthy of his hire. – Работающий стоит своей платы . · Where there is a will, there is a way. – Где есть желание , там и путь ( способ ). Где хотенье, там и уменье. · Jack of all trades, master of none. – Джек – на все руки мастер, а ни одним ремеслом не владеет. · Twelve trades – fourteen misfortunes. – Двенадцать профессий – четырнадцать несчастий. · A man who knows seven trades is a man without a trade. – Человек с семью профессиями – человек без профессий . · The man who knows many trades will finally become a beggar. – Кто знает много ремесел . Станет, в конце концов, попрошайкой.
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