I have the following requirements

Tables
=======
CREATE TABLE EMPLOYEE
(
ID NUMBER(10, 0) NOT NULL,
NAME VARCHAR2(80) NOT NULL,
CONSTRAINT EMPLOYEE_PK PRIMARY KEY (ID)
);

CREATE TABLE WORKS
(
ID NUMBER(10, 0) NOT NULL,
EMP_ID NUMBER(10, 0) REFERENCES EMPLOYEE(ID),
WORKS_FOR_ID NUMBER(10, 0) REFERENCES EMPLOYEE(ID),
CONSTRAINT WORKS_PK PRIMARY KEY (ID)
);

Here the WORKS table has been created so that it enables an Employee to work for many Employees.

I have the following classes

Employee.java
=============
public class Employee {

private Long id;

private String name;

private Set<Works> works;

/**Setter and getters for them**/
....
....
}

employee.hbm
============
<hibernate-mapping>
<class name="com.xxx.Employee" table="EMPLOYEE">
<id name="id" type="long">
<column name="ID" not-null="true"/>
<generator class="native">
<param name="sequence">EMPLOYEE_SEC_NBR</param>
</generator>
</id>
<property name="name" column="NAME" not-null="true" />
<set name="works" inverse="true">
<key column="EMP_ID"/>
<one-to-many class="com.xxx.Works"/>
</set>
</class>
</hibernate-mapping>

what i am trying to achieve is to get rid of the class Works and some how fetch employees a given employee works for

Currently with the code i have i need to do
Set<Employee> worksForSet = new HashSet();
for(Works work: employee.getWorks()) {
worksForList.add(work.getWorksForEmployee());
}

I want to something like
Set<Employee> worksForSet = employee.getWorksForEmployees();


One way is to write the code in the getWorksForEmployees() method to form the Set using the Works Set.
But this way i would end up still keeping the setter getter for works. I dont want to do this.

Is there a cleaner approach ?

Can some one please comment on this ?