short-time


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short-time

[ˈʃɔːtˈtaɪm]
A. ADJ short-time workingtrabajo m de horario reducido
to be on short-time workingtrabajar jornadas reducidas or de horarios reducidos
B. ADV to work short-timetrabajar jornadas reducidas or de horarios reducidos
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References in classic literature ?
Though it is not always the case, I believe, That the longer we've kept 'em, the more do we grieve: For, when debts are payable, right or wrong, A short-time loan is as bad as a long So why in Heaven (before we are there!) Should we give our hearts to a dog to tear?
First, participation rate in short-time compensation was very low: generally less than 1 percent of all employers in the sample States participated at any point in time, and less than 1 percent of unemployment insurance benefit claims were for short-time compensation.
Across the Voestalpine group, 1,500 employees are still under the short-time work scheme.
Mr Foley told them that because of the downturn the company would have to put in place a number of measures to balance supply and demand in the American market - and short-time was one of the moves being lined up.
Although work sharing in the Great Depression involved a much different set of economic circumstances than modern-day recessions, it is useful to understand the Nation's early experience with work sharing because it has left an emotional legacy of ambivalence that affects even today's perceptions of short-time compensation.
According to him, the short-time work can start on May 1.
Lorna Robinson, manager of corporate communications at Agco headquarters in Georgia, USA, said: "It is correct Banner Lane is going on short-time but they only worked a short day each Friday anyway."
During the last one year, around 400 of Miba's 1,300 workers were put on short-time working schemes.
It is only four months since the plant came off short-time after the last downturn as bosses worked to cut costs between October and Christmas 1999.