Meanings of short-time working in English

The road from short-time working to no-time working was a short one.

Fórsa said some staff may qualify for social welfare payments due to short-time working.

The dispute is over severance payments for staff on short-time working who wish to leave.

The remaining staff will stay on short-time working until at least the end of next month.

This has seen the group sell All-Clad at a sizeable profit, and impose short-time working to cut stocks.

The dispute is over a severance package for workers who have been on short-time working because of BSE.

A meeting between management and union representatives at Waterford Crystal over proposed short-time working, has been adjourned until Monday.

It is expected that an extension of a current short-time working scheme will be considered as part of this.

Airbus is expected to try to avoid mandatory lay-offs and make use of short-time working schemes in France and Germany.

There was a touch of inevitability about this week's news that Waterford Crystal would be implementing short-time working at its factories.

With a slump in sales in the European leisure wear industry, it appears that other employees may be requested to return to short-time working.

The company has blamed the introduction of short-time working on a slump in orders in recent months from both the European and worldwide markets.

The Bray People also concentrates on what its headline writer points out: "Bray firm introduces short-time working as economic slowdown bites hard."

Currently 1.3 million workers, a quarter of the Swiss workforce, have been put on short-time working due to the crisis.

Uniper has not had to enforce short-time working or savings plans during the pandemic, which has left utility companies that provide essential services relatively unscathed.

Short-time working and other cutbacks are to be introduced at manufacturing company Oglesby & Butler in response to the economic downturn.