事は百年前、多くの雇い主が従業員に賃金を支給していた方法にさかのぼる、と人事課職員のポーラ・グレイソンさんは話してくれました。

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English Translation

It goes back, Personnel Officer Paula Grayson told us, to the way many employers used to pay their employees a hundred years ago.

Furigana

事(こと)は百(ひゃく)年(ねん)前(まえ)、多(おお)くの雇(やと)い主(ぬし)が従業員(じゅうぎょういん)に賃金(ちんぎん)を支給(しきゅう)していた方法(ほうほう)にさかのぼる、と人事課(じんじか)職員(しょくいん)のポーラ・グレイソンさんは話(はな)してくれました。

Romanji

Koto wa hyaku nen mae, ōku no yatoinushi ga jūgyōin ni chingin o shikyūshiteita hōhō ni sakanoboru, to jinjika shokuin no po-ragureison san wa hanashitekuremashita.

Words

事 (こと、こん)

thing; matter; incident; occurrence; event; something serious; trouble; crisis; circumstances; situation; state of affairs; work; business; affair; after an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not feel close to; nominalizing suffix; pretending to ...; playing make-believe ...; alias; aka; nickname; alternative name; also known as

は (は)

topic marker particle; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis

百 (ひゃく、もも、はく)

100; hundred

年 (とし)

year; many years; age; past one's prime; old age

前 (まえ)

ago; before (some event); previously; (minutes) to (the hour); in front (of); before (e.g. the house); head (of a line); front (e.g. of a bus); fore part; in the presence of; helping; portion; privates; private parts

多く (おおく)

many; much; largely; abundantly; mostly

の (の)

indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; (at sentence-end, falling tone) indicates a confident conclusion; (at sentence-end) indicates emotional emphasis; (at sentence-end, rising tone) indicates question

雇い主 (やといぬし、こしゅ)

employer

が (が)

indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; still; and

従業員 (じゅうぎょういん)

employee; worker

に (に)

at (place, time); in; on; during; to (direction, state); toward; into; for (purpose); because of (reason); for; with; by; from; as (i.e. in the role of); per; in; for; a (e.g. "once a month"); and; in addition to; if; although

賃金 (ちんぎん、ちんきん)

wages; cash payment of rent

を (を)

indicates direct object of action; indicates subject of causative expression; indicates an area traversed; indicates time (period) over which action takes place; indicates point of departure or separation of action; indicates object of desire, like, hate, etc.

支給 (しきゅう)

provision; supply; payment; allowance; grant

方法 (ほうほう)

method; process; manner; way; means; technique

遡る (さかのぼる)

to go upstream; to go back (in time, to origin); to date back to; to trace back to; to make retroactive

と (と)

if; when; and; with; particle used for quoting (with speech, thoughts, etc.); quoting particle; promoted pawn; indicates question (sentence end)

人事課 (じんじか)

personnel section

職員 (しょくいん)

staff member; personnel