Winfried Dressler wrote: <winfried.dressler@voith.de>
> In German, the employer is "Arbeitgeber" and employee is "Arbeitnehmer".
> Arbeit is work, geben is to give and nehmen is to take. So the employer
> gives work to the employee. Funny, isn't it? I always thought it should be
> the other way round.
I know a small company ( about 100 empl.) in the Netherlands who's
employees (whatever name) are paid at the beginning of the month instead
of at the end, in advance. The money is the same, the gesture is
different.
De groeten
Winfried Deijmann
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