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Workplace harassment
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Workplace harassmentHarassment occurring in the workplace.
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Harassment
Unsolicited words or conduct which tend to annoy, alarm or abuse another person. An excellent alternate definition can be found in Canadian human rights legislation as: "a course of vexatious comment or conduct that is known or ought reasonably to be known to be unwelcome." Name-calling ("stupid", "retard" or "dummy") is a common form of harassment. (See also sexual harassment.)
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Work and labor
In actions of assumpsit, it is usual to put in a count, commonly called a common count, for work and labor done, and materials furnished by the plaintiff for the defendant; and when the work was not done under a special contract, the plaintiff will be entitled to recover on the common count for work, labor, and materials.
Work-for-hire
1) A work prepared by an employee within the scope of his or her employment. 2) A work specially ordered or commissioned for use as a contribution to a collective work, as a part of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, as a translation, as a supplementary work, as a compilation, as an instructional text, as a test, as answer material for a test, or as an atlas, if the parties expressly agree in a written instrument signed by them that the work shall be considered a work made for hire.
Worker's compensation
A state agency which handles claims of workers injured on their jobs.
Worker's compensation fraud
False claims for on-the-job injuries. Usually takes the Collusion of employee and unscrupulous doctors to submit false diagnoses. Back injuries (soft tissue strains) and stress are the most common ailments used in this scheme.
Workhouse
A prison where prisoners are kept in employment; a penitentiary. A house provided where the poor are taken care of, and kept in employment.
Working days
In settling laydays or days of demurrage, sometimes the contract specifies working days in the computation, Sundays and custom-house holidays are excluded.
Workman
One who labors, one who is employed to do business for another.
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Workplace harassment
RELATED TERMS--------------------------------------
Harassment
Unsolicited words or conduct which tend to annoy, alarm or abuse another person. An excellent alternate definition can be found in Canadian human rights legislation as: "a course of vexatious comment or conduct that is known or ought reasonably to be known to be unwelcome." Name-calling ("stupid", "retard" or "dummy") is a common form of harassment. (See also sexual harassment.)
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Work and labor
In actions of assumpsit, it is usual to put in a count, commonly called a common count, for work and labor done, and materials furnished by the plaintiff for the defendant; and when the work was not done under a special contract, the plaintiff will be entitled to recover on the common count for work, labor, and materials.
Work-for-hire
1) A work prepared by an employee within the scope of his or her employment. 2) A work specially ordered or commissioned for use as a contribution to a collective work, as a part of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, as a translation, as a supplementary work, as a compilation, as an instructional text, as a test, as answer material for a test, or as an atlas, if the parties expressly agree in a written instrument signed by them that the work shall be considered a work made for hire.
Worker's compensation
A state agency which handles claims of workers injured on their jobs.
Worker's compensation fraud
False claims for on-the-job injuries. Usually takes the Collusion of employee and unscrupulous doctors to submit false diagnoses. Back injuries (soft tissue strains) and stress are the most common ailments used in this scheme.
Workhouse
A prison where prisoners are kept in employment; a penitentiary. A house provided where the poor are taken care of, and kept in employment.
Working days
In settling laydays or days of demurrage, sometimes the contract specifies working days in the computation, Sundays and custom-house holidays are excluded.
Workman
One who labors, one who is employed to do business for another.
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Workplace harassment
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