Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Sep 27, 2018 21:23
5 yrs ago
English term
Fruit day
Non-PRO
English
Bus/Financial
Human Resources
Employee benefits
This is in a so-called "starter kit" for persons taking up employment in an engineering company in Romania. Part of it is a German text which has to be translated, part of it is in English and needs to be proofread.
It's in the following section of the text "Information about our employee benefits":
- Wednesday is fruit day
- Foreign language courses (English and German) are provided with prior approval of the superior
- For each worked day every employee will receive a meal ticket. The value of each ticket is 9.57 RON for employees with less than 1 year seniority at ABC and 15 RON for other employees;
- Each employee will receive a Christmas Bonus, paid during December. The value is 1350 RON gross for the employees that have over 3 years seniority at ABC and 765 RON gross for the other employees ....
etc.
I've never heard of this term and can't find it anywhere. Does it perhaps mean that only fruit is eaten within the company on Wednesdays? But then I can't see why this is an employee benefit, unless the fruit in question is particularly cheap. And if it is an employee benefit, it seems to be a very important one in view of the fact that it's in top place in the list.
Or could it be a finer point of Romanian English of which I'm not aware?
Any help would be appreciated!
It's in the following section of the text "Information about our employee benefits":
- Wednesday is fruit day
- Foreign language courses (English and German) are provided with prior approval of the superior
- For each worked day every employee will receive a meal ticket. The value of each ticket is 9.57 RON for employees with less than 1 year seniority at ABC and 15 RON for other employees;
- Each employee will receive a Christmas Bonus, paid during December. The value is 1350 RON gross for the employees that have over 3 years seniority at ABC and 765 RON gross for the other employees ....
etc.
I've never heard of this term and can't find it anywhere. Does it perhaps mean that only fruit is eaten within the company on Wednesdays? But then I can't see why this is an employee benefit, unless the fruit in question is particularly cheap. And if it is an employee benefit, it seems to be a very important one in view of the fact that it's in top place in the list.
Or could it be a finer point of Romanian English of which I'm not aware?
Any help would be appreciated!
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Fruit day
Maybe it's a day when fruit is made available free of charge on the workplace. Workplace health is becoming quite in vogue nowadays.
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "So I wasn't completely off the mark then ... Thanks a lot, also to Katty for the useful link."
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