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1 employer
HRa person or organization that pays people to perform specified activities. An employer usually contracts an employee to fill a permanent or temporary position to perform work on a regularly paid basis within the relevant legal framework of the country of residence. -
2 single-employer bargaining
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3 early retirement
HRretirement from work before the statutory retirement age or before the normal retirement age set by an employer. Early retirement may be taken because of poor health or at the request of the employee or employer. An employer may offer opportunities for early retirement on advantageous financial terms as a way of reducing staff numbers without layoffs. -
4 employee
HRsomeone hired by an employer under a contract of employment to perform work on a regular basis at the employer’s behest. An employee works either at the employer’s premises or at a place otherwise agreed, is paid regularly, and enjoys fringe benefits and employment protection. -
5 career break
HRa planned interruption to working life, usually for a predetermined period of time. A career break is usually designed either to aid career development or to enable somebody to balance work and family life. It may take the form of parental leave, or a sabbatical for study, research, or exploring alternative activities. A career break may be sanctioned by an employer or taken without the support of an employer. -
6 casual worker
HRsomebody who provides labor or services under an irregular or informal working arrangement. A casual worker is usually considered as an independent contractor rather than an employee. Consequently, there is no obligation on the part of an employer to provide work, and there is no obligation on the part of the casual worker to accept all offers of work made by an employer. -
7 hoteling
Gen Mgtthe practice of occupying a desk or workspace in another employer’s premises. Hoteling is normally carried out by employees such as consultants or sales people, who spend more time with customers than at their employer’s offices and rely on their clients to provide desk space. Hoteling has developed through improved information and communications technologies and is an extension of the virtual office. -
8 layoff
Gen Mgtdismissal from work because a job ceases to exist. Layoffs occur most frequently when an employer goes out of business, suffers a drop in business necessitating a cutback in the workforce, or relocates part, or all, of the company. Layoffs may also be due to a reduced requirement for employees to conduct work of a particular kind. Employees who are laid off may qualify for severance pay. If the layoff process is handled incorrectly, the employer may be faced with claims for unfair dismissal.U.K. term redundancy -
9 no-strike agreement
HRa formal understanding between an employer and a labor union that the union will not call its members out on strike. A no-strike agreement is usually won by the employer in exchange for improved terms and conditions of employment, including pay, and sometimes guaranteed employment. -
10 psychological contract
HRthe set of unwritten expectations concerning the relationship between an employee and an employer. The psychological contract addresses factors that are not defined in a written contract of employment such as levels of employee commitment, productivity, quality of working life, job satisfaction, attitudes to flexible working, and the provision and take-up of suitable training. Expectations from both employer and employee can change, so the psychological contract must be reevaluated at intervals to minimize misunderstandings. -
11 retirement
HRthe voluntary or forced termination of employment because of age, illness, or disability. Retirement age is often stipulated in the contract of employment. Differences between the retirement ages of men and women are no longer allowed in many countries. Employees may take early retirement from their employer, or may, with the agreement of their employer, take gradual, or phased retirement. A pension may be drawn on reaching retirement age. -
12 Deacon, Henry
[br]b. 30 July 1822 London, Englandd. 23 July 1876 Widnes, Cheshire, England[br]English industrial chemist.[br]Deacon was apprenticed at the age of 14 to the London engineering firm of Galloway \& Sons. Faraday was a friend of the family and gave Deacon tuition, allowing him to use the laboratories at the Royal Institution. When the firm failed in 1839, Deacon transferred his indentures to Nasmyth \& Gaskell on the Bridgewater Canal at Patricroft. Nasmyth was then beginning work on his steam hammer and it is said that Deacon made the first model of it, for patent purposes. Around 1848, Deacon joined Pilkington's, the glassmakers at St Helens, where he learned the alkali industry, which was then growing up in that district on account of the close proximity of the necessary raw materials, coal, lime and salt. Wishing to start out on his own, he worked as Manager at the chemical works of a John Hutchinson. This was followed by a partnership with William Pilkington, a former employer, who was later replaced by Holbrook Gaskell, another former employer. Deacon's main activity was the manufacture of soda by the Leblanc process. He sought improvement by substituting the ammonia-soda process, but this failed and did not succeed until it was perfected by Solvay. Deacon did, however, with his Chief Chemist F.Hurter, introduce improvements in the Leblanc process during the period 1866–70. Hydrochloric acid, which had previously been a waste product and a nuisance, was oxidized catalytically to chlorine; this could be converted with lime to bleaching powder, which was in heavy demand by the textile industry. The process was patented in 1870.[br]Further ReadingD.W.F.Hardie, 1950, A History of the Chemical Industry in Widnes, London. J.Fenwick Allen, 1907, Some Founders of the Chemical Industry, London.LRD -
13 Corporativism
Corporativism or corporatism, a social and economic doctrine or ideology, has been influential on several occasions in the 20th century. Based on Catholic social doctrines, corporativism began to enjoy a certain vogue among conservative parties in the First Republic. The Estado Novo adopted the doctrine as one of its main ideologies and strategies after 1930, although it took decades for the corporative system to be instituted in any comprehensive way. Antônio de Oliveira Salazar and his ruling group advocated the corporative system in the 1933 Constitution and the National LaborStatute of September 1933, but it was not until after a 1956 law that the system was put into operation.The Estado Novo's intention was to have greater control over the economy than the weak First Republic had managed by means of eliminating social conflict as well as the inevitable struggle between labor and management. New state doctrine declared that the regime under a corporative system would be "neither bourgeois nor proletarian." The idea was that corporativism in Portugal would be largely self-regulating and would promote social peace and prosperity. In fact, the corporative system became simply another part of the large state bureaucracy in the 1950s, l960s, and 1970s. Under this system, management was organized in guilds ( grêmios) and labor in official unions ( sindicatos). The state also organized special employer-employee institutes for rural workers ( Casas do Povo or "Houses of the People") and for fishermen ( Casas dos Pescadores or "Houses of Fishermen").An elaborate bureaucratic structure administered this cumbersome system. A Chamber of Corporations, representing all professions and occupations, was the upper chamber of the national legislature in Lisbon. One major aim or strategy of the system was to prevent labor strikes or lockouts, but after 1942's widespread strikes and later labor unrest it was clear that opposition labor groups, some organized by the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP), had engineered their own labor union system parallel to the corporative system. After the Revolution of 25 April 1974, the first provisional government abolished the Estado Novo's corporative system. -
14 Fishing
Portugal's long coastline and seafaring tradition have made fishing an important economic activity. The country's main fishing ports and centers of commercial fish processing are Lisbon, Setúbal, Matosinhos, and Portimão. The most important of the 200 species of fish caught in adjacent waters are anchovy, sardines, mackerel, stickleback, and tunny. While most fish caught by Portuguese fishermen is consumed locally, sardines, canned in oil, are exported.During the Estado Novo, fishermen were organized into mixed employer-employee organizations called casas dos pescadores, but these were underfunded, and, because no attempt was made to modernize the industry, fishing stagnated. Cod fishing off Greenland and Newfoundland, at one time a major aspect of the Portuguese fishing industry, went into decline and has all but disappeared owing to the failure of Portugal to modernize its cod-fishing fleet and adopt modern fishing techniques. This has meant that Portugal has had to purchase foreign-caught cod to satisfy local demand for bacalhau (codfish), the country's national dish since the 15th century. -
15 attendance bonus
HRa financial or nonfinancial incentive offered to employees by an employer to arrive for work on time -
16 Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Fina national council of business organizations in Australia. It represents around 350,000 businesses and its members include state chambers of commerce as well as major national employer and industry associations.Abbr. ACCIThe ultimate business dictionary > Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
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17 benefit
Finsomething that improves the profitability or efficiency of an organization or reduces its risk, or any nonmonetary reward given to employees, for example, paid vacations or employer contributions to pensions -
18 block release
HRan arrangement whereby an employer permits an employee to be away from work to attend an educational institution for a period of time, usually several weeks -
19 boomerang worker
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20 boot camp
HRan induction or orientation program for new employees, designed to push recruits to their limits. Boot camps are modeled on the basic training of the U.S. Marine Corps and aim to immerse new employees in the corporate culture of the employer, as well as transferring knowledge about technical skills.
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