1 Terms
Contributors in Labor relations
Labor relations
separation pay
Labor; Labor relations
Payment to a worker who is permanently laid off his job through no fault of his own.
seniority
Labor; Labor relations
A worker's length of service with an employer. In union contracts, seniority often determines layoffs from work and recalls back to work.
secondary boycott
Labor; Labor relations
An effort to disrupt the business of an employer through boycott techniques, even though his own workers are not directly involved in the labor dispute.
scab
Labor; Labor relations
A worker who refuses to join the union or who works while others are striking. Also known as a "strikebreaker. "
sabotage
Labor; Labor relations
From the French word "sabot" or wooden shoe which workers threw into the machines to keep them from working. Workers have been perpetually fearful that new machines would take their jobs away from ...
right to work laws
Labor; Labor relations
The term used by opponents of unions to institute open shop laws in the state. The expression has nothing to do with guaranteeing anyone the right to a job.
redemptioner
Labor; Labor relations
A white emigrant from Europe who paid for his or her voyage to the New World by serving as a servant for a specific period of time. Also known as a freewiller.
