PROBLEMS AT WORK BUSINESS VOCABULARY IN USE

 

BUSINESS VOCABULARY IN USE 8. PROBLEMS AT WORK

 

A Health and safety Here are some health and safety issues for people at work. All these things contribute to a bad working environment. The government sends official called health and safety inspectors to make sure that factories and offices are safe places to work. They check what companies are doing about things like: B Bullying and harassment If someone such as manager bullies an employee, the use their position of power to hurt or threaten them, for example verbally. Someone who does this is a bully. Sexual harassment is when an employee behaves sexually towards another in a way what they find unwelcome and unacceptable. The related verb is harass. C Discrimination If people are treated differently from others in an unfair way, they are discriminated against. If a woman is unfairly treated just because she is a woman, she is a victim of sex discrimination. In many organizations, women complain about the glass ceiling that allows them to get to particular level but no further.   EXERCISES 8.1 Match the employee’s complaints 91-6) to the health and safety issues (a-f) in A opposite. 1 My doctor says there’s something wrong with my lungs, but I’ve never smoked. …… 4 There’s all this waste paper but there are no fire extinguishers in the building. ………. 8.2 Complete these headlines and articles with the correct form of words from B and C opposite. One expression is used twice. Match the employee’s complaints 91-6) to the health and safety issues (a-f) in A opposite. 1 Office manager accused of ……………. A court heard today how an office worker was almost driven to suicide by a bullying office manager. James Blenkinsop, 27, told how boss Nigel Kemp victimized him by shouting at him, criticizing his work in front of others, tearing up his work and telling him to do it again …… 4 Shop manageress in …………..   ………. Case A clothing shop’s half-Burmese manageress, 24-year-old Marion Brown, claims her boss continually made …… remarks and sacked her from her £110-a week job when she objected. She claims the shop has racially …… against her….

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