empleador
nounCEFR B2
What does “empleador” mean in English?
employer — the person or organisation that hires and pays workers
employer — the person or organisation that hires and pays workers (obligaciones del empleador; empleadores privados/públicos)
Example sentences
Los sindicatos exigen que los empleadores asuman su responsabilidad en materia de formación continua del personal.
Trade unions are demanding that employers take responsibility for the ongoing training of staff.
La normativa establece que el empleador debe comunicar el despido con un mínimo de quince días de antelación.
The regulations state that the employer must notify dismissal at least fifteen days in advance.
Una parte creciente de los trabajadores autónomos actúa simultáneamente como empleador de otros profesionales.
A growing proportion of self-employed workers simultaneously act as employers of other professionals.
How to use it
El/la empleador/a (noun, common gender) means 'employer' — the person or organisation that hires workers. At B2 it is the standard legal and labour-relations term. Core collocations: derechos del empleador/del trabajador; obligaciones del empleador; empleadores privados/públicos; la relación empleador-empleado. The related noun is empleo (employment) and the verb contratar (to hire). Distinguish from empresario/a (business owner — broader) and jefe/a (boss — informal). In legal texts, empleador is preferred over patrón (which can sound archaic or pejorative).
Common mistake
Empleador is the formal legal term; jefe is the everyday word for 'boss'. Don't confuse with empleado/a (employee — the other party). 'The employer-employee relationship' = la relación empleador-empleado or la relación laboral. Patrón can have pejorative connotations in some Latin American varieties.