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SEVERANCE PAY

Specialty Definition: SEVERANCE PAY

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Labor

Payments made in respect to vacation pay to employees who leave the bank service. The vacation pay does not include salaries paid to employees for their current vacation. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: SEVERANCE PAY

Synonyms: Discharge benefits, Dismissal wage, Layoff compensation. (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: SEVERANCE PAY

DomainTitle

Books

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: SEVERANCE PAY

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Civil Liberties

East Timor

Most demonstrations centered on complaints over allocation of jobs, salaries, severance pay issues, and admission of students to the university. (references)

Economic History

Mauritius

Laid-off workers receive generous severance pay. (references)

Austria

A reform of the severance pay system is underway. (references)

Human Rights

Indonesia

The demonstrators were protesting against changes to the labor laws regarding severance pay and oil-price increases. (references)

Indonesia

Ten thousand workers protesting the new severance pay decree in June threw stones, wood, and plastic bottles, injuring at least nine persons and damaging two hotels in Jakarta. (references)

Political Economy

GUATEMALA

They generally receive no social benefits, social insurance, vacations, or severance pay, and earn below-minimum salaries. (references)

Worker Rights

El Salvador

One pregnant woman refused to accept severance pay. (references)

Saint Kitts and Nevis

However, the employer must pay lost wages and severance pay. (references)

El Salvador

The remaining 23 workers accepted severance pay in lieu of reinstatement. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: SEVERANCE PAY

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

severance pay

106

severance pay law

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: SEVERANCE PAY

Language Translations for "SEVERANCE PAY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

pagesë për shkurtim nga puna. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏تعويضات الإقالة, ‏تعويض إنهاء الخدمة. (various references)

   

Czech

  

odškodné (amends, award, damages, recompense, reparation). (various references)

   

French

  

indemnité de licenciement, indemnité de cessation d'emploi. (various references)

   

German

  

abfindung (compensation, forisfamiliation, gratuity, indemnity, paying off, redundancy payment). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

פצוי פטורין (redundancy pay). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

végkielégítés (dismissal pay, dismission pay). (various references)

   

Italian

  

indennit di licenziamento (redundance payment, redundancy payment). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

everancesay aypay

   

Russian 

  

выходное пособие (dismissal pay, dismissal wage, dismission pay, lay-off pay). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

otpremnina. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

compensación por despido (redundance pay, redundancy pay). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

avgångsvederlag (dismissal pay, dismission pay, redundancy payment). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

işten çıkarma tazminatı (golden handshake). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: SEVERANCE PAY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-e-e-n-p-r-s-v-y"

-3 letters: esperance, severance.

-4 letters: canvaser, cesarean, evanesce, pancreas, precavae, presence.

-5 letters: apyrase, canapes, careens, carneys, caserne, caverns, cravens, escapee, escaper, eveners, pavanes, peaveys, prances, precava, pyrenes, recanes, repaves, respace, scenery, spencer, syncarp, veneers.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Synonyms
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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