personellvertreter

English translation: employee (staff) representative

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German term or phrase:	Personalvertreter
English translation:	employee (staff) representative
Entered by:	Louise Mawbey

13:03 Jan 8, 2003

German to English translations [PRO]
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German term or phrase: personellvertreter

"Personellvertreter", title of a corporate board member. Is there a standard English equivalent? thanks

georg schreiner KudoZ activity Questions: 216 (none open) Answers: 11
Local time: 14:47

employee (staff) representative

Explanation:
Große Eichborn

Selected response from:

Louise Mawbey
Germany
Local time: 14:47

Grading comment

Thanks!

4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

4 +11

employee (staff) representative

Louise Mawbey

4 +1

Employee Representative

Nicole Tata

employment recruiter

Ellen Zittinger

human resources officer

Elvira Stoianov

Discussion entries: 3

Answers

6 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +11

employee (staff) representative

Explanation:
Große Eichborn

Louise Mawbey
Germany
Local time: 14:47
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in pair: 1058

Grading comment

Thanks!

7 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

Employee Representative

Explanation:
usually through an trades union, I think is what it means. I can only find Austrian references, so maybe it's specific to that country.

hope it helps

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Some google finds:

Member since 2002. Göran Engström (1948*) Employee representative and member of the Finance Committee of the Board. Member since ...
www.ericsson.com/about/compfacts/board_directors.shtml - 44k

Eckhard Lieb Engine technician, Employee representative, Dr. Klaus Zumwinkel Chairman of the Executive Board Deutsche Post AG, ...
www.lufthansa.com/dlh/en/htm/profil/ management/management.html

Nicole Tata
United Kingdom
Local time: 13:47
Native speaker of:

English,

German
PRO pts in pair: 1326

39 mins confidence:

human resources officer

Explanation:
that just popped to my mind

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Note added at 2003-01-08 13:44:24 (GMT)
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Searched the web for \"human resources officer\". Results 1 - 10 of about 15,400. Search took 0.19 seconds

Elvira Stoianov
Luxembourg
Local time: 14:47
Native speaker of:

Romanian,

Hungarian
PRO pts in pair: 1082

7 hrs confidence:

employment recruiter

Explanation:
Many companies have recruiters to search for employees that qualify to be hired. As such he is a representative for the human resource department as a recruiter.

Ellen Zittinger
Local time: 05:47
Native speaker of:

English,

German
PRO pts in pair: 287

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