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featherbeddingLabour union practices that require the employer to pay for the performance of unnecessary work or to employ workers who are not needed. Featherbedding provisions in labour contracts may result from the continuation of work rules that were once efficient but that have become obsolete. A union may insist on the continuation of such work rules to protect the job security of its members. See also collective bargaining. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| And the featherbedding that has been all but abolished from private industry continues within big-city school systems. Yet there were many questions that needed to be answered, among them why (Jeff) Skilling, (Kenneth) Lay and the board had cooperated in an arrangement that appeared to amount to featherbedding for Fastow. Make cuts in other departments and get rid of featherbedding. |
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