Employee representatives may be chosen by their fellow employees or appointed by management. Their roles vary but most: 1  receive information from and give information to management.  pass on information more widely within the workforce.
Confidence votes 11. The fork was invented in the Middle East before the year 1000. In the 11th century it made its way to Italy through the Byzantine empire. Then it became popular there in the 14th century, being used by upper classes in 1600s.Then it spread to Northern Europe and ultimately to the world. Although some use chopsticks.
The knife has been used by ancient man since the bronze age. The fork was mentioned in the Old Testament but is thought to have been used in Venice in the 11 century. The spoon (originally wooden or bone) has been used by man since the stone age. Tony Muir, Tamarama. Knives from flints and spoons from shells go back to early man. Bone forks have been found in the Qijia culture (2400 BC - 1900 BC) of ancient China but were not used widely in the West before the early seventeenth century and, in Britain, the eighteenth. Paul Roberts, Lake Cathie.