who "gives" work?

it's kinda fucked up that "employee" is werknemer (lit. "work taker") and "employer" is werkgever ("work giver") in Dutch. i guess that's in the sense of employers "providing" employment and employees "accepting" employment, but that erases the violence of capitalism. i think it would be way more accurate if the terms were reversed. employees provide labour and employers just take take take.