• There are new health and safety regulations for factory workers.
• We now employ a staff of 25.
The workforce is all the people who work in a country, industry, or large organization:• State industry employs almost one-third of China’s urban workforce of 150 million.
Labour /Labor is all the people who work in an industry or country, especially people whose jobs involve working with their hands, in factories etc rather than in offices. Personnel are the people employed by a particular company or organization. Manpower is all the workers available to work for an employer or country. A colleague or co-worker is someone you work with, especially in an office. Aworkmate is someone who works closely with you, especially someone you are friendly with.• a strike by assembly workers at the local car factory
• The company hopes to reduce back injuries amongst its blue-collar workers.
• A report that said contract workers receive less safety training than permanent workers.
• A strike by even a small number of core workers such as train drivers or signalmen can paralyse the network.
• Like many of the city's estates, this one was built for car factory workers.
• 30,000 EU farm workers demonstrated in Brussels about low pay and bad conditions.
• Fifteen million guest workers in the EU have no civic rights and no right to vote.
• 39% of those who were unemployed for up to six months were manual workers.
• mobile workers such as field service engineers
• Nomadic workers are no longer tied to a desk, but can review or change their documents and data on the move.
• skilled workers such as plumbers and electricians
• Simple, repetitive tasks are performed by unskilled workers under close supervisory control.
• The overall cost-cutting effort will largely affect white-collar workers.
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Some of the region's employers have developed shortages of high-tech workers.
»Employers will require more money if they are to retrain older workers.
»a skilled/unskilled/semi-skilled worker
»migrant/seasonal/casual workers
»a temporary/full-time/part-time worker
»blue-collar/white-collar/pink-collar workers
»low-paid/low-skilled/low-wage workers
»undocumented/illegal/transient workers
»a factory/construction/farm worker
»private-sector/public-sector workers
»a contract/freelance/self-employed worker
»a key/core worker
hire/employ/recruit workers »The company knowingly hired illegal workers.
lay off/sack/fire workers »Across the country, automobile plants are laying off workers.
Employers realize they must compete for good workers.
Financial and business terms. 2012.