Strikes and Protests French terms
Strikes and Protests French terms - Grèves et Manifs en France - French terms about worker's claims and about the recession.
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France is in a full-on recession period. I compiled this list of words you might come across as you read a French paper or listen to the French news.
- authorities -- fp -- collectivités
- base salary -- m -- salaire de base
- benefits -- mp -- avantages sociaux
- blue-collar worker -- m/f -- ouvrier/ ouvrière
- compensation -- f -- indemnité, indemnisation
- compensatory time -- f -- RTT, Réduction du Temps de Travail
- conflict -- m -- conflit
- day / night shift -- f -- équipe de jour / de nuit
- delegation -- f -- délégation
- demand, claim -- f -- revendication
- employment agency -- f, m -- agence pour l'emploi, Pôle Emploi
- financial difficulty -- f -- difficulté financière
- job insecurity -- f -- précarité
- jobless -- m/f -- sans-emploi
- layoff -- m -- licenciement
- looking for a job -- f -- recherche d’un emploi
- march, protest -- f -- manif, manifestation
- minimum wage -- m -- SMIC, Salaire Minimum interprofessionnel de Croissance (used to be SMIG)
- overtime -- f -- heure supplémentaire
- paid leave, vacation -- m -- congé payé
- recession -- f -- récession, crise économique
- solidarity measures -- f -- action sociale
- staff reduction -- f -- compression de personnel
- strike -- f -- grève
- to protest, to march -- ø -- manifester
- unemployment -- m -- chômage
- union, trade union -- m -- syndicat
- vacancy (job) -- m -- poste vacant, poste à pourvoir
- welfare solidarity income -- m -- RSA, Revenu de Solidarité Active
- white-collar worker -- m/f -- employé/e de bureau
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