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| Domain | Definition |
Insurance | An insurance under which a person, who is unemployed through no fault of his or her own, is paid weekly benefits based upon his or her past wages in employment covered by state or federal laws. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCESynonyms: Social insurance, Unemployment benefits, Unemployment compensation. (additional references) |
Crosswords: UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE |
| English words defined with "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE": Social Security. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE": appeals board referee, AUDITOR, INTERNAL ♦ COMMUNITY WORKER ♦ DIRECTOR, UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ♦ EMPLOYMENT-AND-CLAIMS AIDE, extended benefits ♦ liable employer ♦ Mass layoff ♦ POLICE OFFICER III. (references) |
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Screenplays | Now listen this is your last week of unemployment insurance, either you kill somebody next week or we're going to have to change your status. (History of the World: Part I; writing credit: Mel Brooks) | |
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Ronald Reagan | Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders. |
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Business | In May the ACFTU publicly called upon the Government to devote greater resources to unemployment insurance funds and reemployment projects. (references) | |
Economic History | Denmark | Denmark has well functioning unemployment insurance and sick pay schemes. (references) |
China | Local governments also require enterprise and worker contributions to pension and unemployment insurance funds. (references) | |
Slovak Rep | Slovak social insurance is compulsory and includes a health allowance, unemployment insurance, and pension insurance. (references) | |
Political Economy | DENMARK | The government pays most sick leave and unemployment insurance costs. (references) |
DENMARK | Employees pay their contribution to unemployment insurance out of their wages, while a large part of unemployment benefits is financed from general revenues. (references) | |
DENMARK | A general unemployment insurance system in the Faroe Islands has been in force since 1992. Sick pay and maternity pay, as in Denmark, fall under the social security system. (references) | |
Women | South Africa | For example, the Gender Monitoring and Advocacy Group, an NGO consortium that includes a domestic workers' organization, successfully lobbied for an amendment to proposed unemployment insurance legislation that originally did not cover domestic workers, who are primarily women. (references) |
Worker Rights | Israel and the occupied territories | However, they do not have access to unemployment insurance, general disability payments, or low-income supplements. (references) |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | In the Federation, contributions to the Pension, Health insurance, and Unemployment Insurance funds are 7, 5, and 1 percent respectively. (references) | |
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Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | We must modernize our unemployment insurance and establish a high-level commission on automation. |
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Expression using "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE": unemployment insurance fund. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | arbejdsloeshedsforsikring (unemployment compensation, unemployment fund, unemployment insurance fund). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | werkloosheidsverzekering. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | assurance-chômage, assurance chômage. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Arbeitslosenversicherung. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ασφάλιση κατά της ανεργίας (unemployment compensation, unemployment fund, unemployment insurance fund), ασφάλιση ανεργίας, ταμείο ανεργίας (unemployment compensation, unemployment fund, unemployment insurance fund). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | assicurazione-disoccupazione (unemployment compensation, unemployment fund, unemployment insurance fund). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 雇"保険 , 失業保険 , 失保 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しつぎょうほけ", しつほ, "ようほけ". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | employmentunay insuranceay seguro desemprego. (various references) arbetslöshetsförsäkring. (various references) işsizlik sigortası. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® YAWL-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-e-i-l-m-m-n-n-n-n-o-p-r-s-t-u-u-y" | |
-5 letters: incommensurately. | |
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