Which preposition to use with employers
He carried this nonchalance so far at last, that a matter of intelligence, and that no very important one, was not seldom palmed upon his employers for a good jest; for example sake"Walking yesterday morning casually down Snow Hill, who should we meet but Mr. Deputy Humphreys!
A former employer of his told me.
It is quite certain that up to the day when Feist called on his employer in Hare Court, Mr. Van Torp believed himself perfectly safe.
Beaumaroy sometimes addressed his employer as "Mr. Saffron," but much more commonly he used the respectful "sir."
If you are a Workman, or Labourer, or Operative, you can Ask, or Bequest, or Solicit your employer to Yield, or Grant, or Concede, an increase in the Earnings, or Wages, or Remuneration which fall to the lot of your Fellow, or Companion, or Associate.
However, he preferred to answer his employer with a jest which set them all laughing.
Joanna having earlier proved utterly unromantic in her attitude, Nancy went further with Ellen and gave her an English novel called, "The Merriweathers," in which an old family servant had not only followed her employers from castle to hovel, remaining there without Wages for years, but had insisted on lending all her savings to the Mistress of the Manor.
This view suggests that we may soon have to adopt the methods of other belligerents and stop employers by law from stealing a neighbor's working force.
Jack created quite a sensation at one time by marrying the daughter of his employer on half an hour's ball room acquaintance.
La Catiche sat upon a throne, served by the other domestics, with her employers at her feet.
Already far more has been accomplished for the relief of the poor by a combination of laborers against hard-hearted employers than by any legislative enactments; but when will the contest between capital and labor cease?
Complaints are, for the most part, adduced by the employers against the laborers, and principally consist, (as hitherto,) of breaches of contract; but I am happy to observe, that a diminution of dissatisfaction on this head even, has taken place, as will be seen by the accompanying general return of offences reported.
The individual employer under normal circumstances is no more to blame for the low wages, long hours, &c., than is the middleman.
I did not suspect that a man like myself, capable of dealing with bankers and talking for several consecutive hours with his employers without arousing their suspicion as to his mental condition, was to be suspected by his own relatives.
From these she mentally selected such information as, to her employers across the Aisne, would be of vital interest.
They are recommended to him by their employers after careful testing and sounding.
MÉNAGER, régler avec précaution; employer avec économie; traiter avec égards.
The regular laborers frequently let themselves to their employers during the harvest month at from 20s. to 24s.
This they procured by taking the miner's employer into partnership, and in a few years all three were rich men.
The plan tends to break up the trade-unions, which is one of the reasons that the employers like it, and is the main reason that organized labor opposes it.
Lastly, there are many large employments not subject to the Factory Act, where the economic power of the employer over weak employees is grossly abused.
After one hundred and ninety firms had signed up, and the majority of the strikers had returned to their shops, an attempt was made to settle with the still obdurate employers through arbitration, at the suggestion of the National Civic Federation.
It was the common-sense and rational attitude of my employer toward mental illness which determined the issue.
On the other hand, it weakened the sense of responsibility in the employer towards his workmen in proportion as the dependence of the latter became more absolute.
Every concern of his employer about which he knows interests him, and a slight to his superior is vastly more of an offence than if offered to himself.