Work_stoppage Work_stoppage

Work stoppage - Definition and Overview

Related Words: Access, Afterthought, Apoplexy, Arrest, Attack, Bar, Bell, Block, Blockade, Bottleneck

A work stoppage is an event at which work at a place of employment has come to a halt, either through a strike action, where employees cease working (often backed up by a labor union), or through a lockout, where the employer bars the employees from entering the place of work, or from performing their assigned tasks.

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