Academic Reading Vocabulary - older workers | Baamboozle - Baamboozle

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pay scale

a salary structure; a system to determine how much money you earn in your job depending on age or time

an attractive job position

an interesting job opportunity

to retain the services

to keep the services

to be self-employed

to be a freelancer, an independent worker, to work for yourself

a proposition

a suggestion

to afford something

to have enough money

to be devised by

to arrange, to design, to come up with

increasingly

more and more

to be acknowledged

to be recognised, accepted, confirmed

piece-rates

you are paid by content (unit of production at a fixed rate) not by time on the job

to employ someone

to hire someone for a job

bridge-jobs

part-time or temporary employment that creates a gradual transition from full-time work to retirment

the intellectual capital

the experience, knowledge and education of the workers

the general assumption

a general belief; we believe it to be true (often without any real proof)

to retain

to keep, to hold on to

to be rewarded

to be given something value, to receive something, to benefit from something

to re-employ

to hire again

an innovation

a change, transformation or reorganisation

in spite of

despite; although

to tempt someone to do something

to attract, to captivate, to make someone want to do something

to persuade

to convince; to make someone believe you