Work and the labour market (nezaposlenost, sindikat, napredovanje)

Having and not having a job

From zaposlenik and zaposlenje you can build the whole field: zaposliti se (to get a job), nezaposlen (unemployed) and nezaposlenost (unemployment). Moj brat je nezaposlen već godinu dana. Statistics speak of the stopa (rate): Stopa nezaposlenosti je visoka.

Kinds of work

wordmeaning
sezonski posaoseasonal work — the Croatian coast in summer
privrementemporary — privremeni ugovor
rad na crnoundeclared work, off the books
sindikattrade union
He is a seasonal worker on the coast.
On je sezonski radnik na moru.

Career and after

napredovanje (promotion, advancement) and usavršavanje (professional development) are verbal nouns of verbs you know; at the end of a career comes the umirovljenik (pensioner), living on a mirovina. All of it adds up to the životni standard (standard of living): Životni standard u Hrvatskoj raste.

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