lifetime employment
noun[U]
HRukusapromiseby acompanyto anemployeethat they will have ajobfortheirwholeworkinglife:
Lifetimeemploymentis a long-establishedpracticeinlargeJapanesefirms.
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lifetime employment
The company had previously had alifetimeemploymentpolicy but the mass layoffs caused a morale crisis.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It is accurate to say that the system oflifetimeemploymenthas partly - but not entirely - disintegrated in the face of economic pressures from globalization.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This track offered women a chance for advancement based on performance, rather thanlifetimeemployment.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Restricted migration,lifetimeemployment, egalitarian wage structures, and the insular nature of work units were intended by the state, at least in part, to curtail individual competition.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.They are said to be loyal to their organisations, enjoy the notion oflifetimeemploymentand prefer to be valued or needed as opposed to rewarded with recognition or money.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Tenure generally constitutes alifetimeemploymentagreement, and is generally thought of as a means of protecting faculty whose research may be socially, politically, or scientifically controversial.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Traditionally, under thelifetimeemploymentsystem, directors and department chiefs begin their careers as line employees of the company and work their way up the management hierarchy over time.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In addition, workers are now leery about accepting the implicit promise oflifetimeemploymentthat many larger firms formerly offered.
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Indeed, in practice, bureaucrats were admitted to an exclusive club that could guaranteelifetimeemployment.
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The institutionalizedlifetimeemploymentsystem makes it very hard for firms to fire workers.
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