labor agreement
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3.2
- noun
- /ˈleɪbər əˈɡrimənt/
- Formal
:
contrato laboral
- After months of discussions, the union and management finally signed a labor agreement detailing the new working conditions.
- enter into a labor agreement
Examples
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Official reports are replete with evidence that clearly indicates the reluctance of Rhodesdale tenants to enter into labor agreements with the farm owners.
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O'Leary objected on the basis that his employment with the Province was governed by a labor agreement.
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The labor agreement is unlike the environmental agreement, which did not create these national administrative offices to respond to the public.
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For the majority of Africans, signing a labor agreement was one way of gaining access to Crown land.
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The tenants were therefore naturally reluctant to enter into labor agreements with European farm owners, and even when forced to sign these agreements, they did not always honor the terms.
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"The Paris-based OECD estimates that 1.8 billion people are working without a formal labor agreement worldwide, compared to 1.2 billion who are officially employed."
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Robots and labor agreements helped GM shrink its workforce and boost productivity.
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For example, from the WSJ, "Hostess management said work rules from existing labor agreements made it hard to improve productivity and spend money efficiently."
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At the end of the Civil War, freedmen and women began to acquire property throughout the South, using a variety of cash and labor agreements with former plantation owners and the federal government.
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However, former migrant workers were particularly vulnerable to the labor demands of the farm owners since they were easily forced to enter into labor agreements and to honor the term; otherwise, they faced the possibility of deportation to their home countries.
Academic text (2005)
Synonyms
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1.4
A promise made between two or more people, often written
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2.8
An agreement between workers and their employer that says pay, benefits and work rules
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3.5
A written deal between an employer and employees, usually through a union, that sets pay and work conditions
How Powerful
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a formal contract between workers and management' is directly derivable from 'labor' (workers) and 'agreement' (a contract); their combination follows a regular noun-noun compositional pattern. This construction is cross-linguistically common (e.g. Spanish 'acuerdo laboral', French 'accord de travail') and would be understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
The noun labor agreement paints a simple picture: labor (the workers) and an agreement (a signed deal) meet and write down pay, hours, and rules. So, it means 'a formal contract' between workers and management about wages, benefits, and working conditions.