seniority system — Any system or arrangement which recognizes length of service in promotions, layoffs, etc … Black's law dictionary
seniority — noun VERB + SENIORITY ▪ have ▪ lose SENIORITY + NOUN ▪ system ▪ It is believed that the seniority system reduces competition between co workers. PREPOSITI … Collocations dictionary
system — n. group of items serving a common purpose 1) an air conditioning; amplifying; brake; data processing; filing; guidance; heating; highway (AE), motorway (BE), road; intercommunication; life support; number; public address; railroad (AE), railway… … Combinatory dictionary
Nenko System — The seniority wage system (年功序列, Nenkō joretsu?) is the Japanese system of promoting an employee in order of his or her proximity to retirement. The advantage of the system is that it allows older employees to achieve a higher salary level before … Wikipedia
Judicial system of the People's Republic of China — For the Ministry of Justice, see Ministry of Justice of the People s Republic of China. People s Republic of China This article is part of the series: Politics and government of … Wikipedia
Agnatic seniority — Agnatic (or patrilineal) descent is established by tracing descent exclusively through males from a founding male ancestor. In hereditary monarchies, particularly in more ancient times, seniority was a much used principle of order of succession.… … Wikipedia
Court Cases Relating to India's Reservation System — Indian Judiciary has pronounced some Judgments upholding reservations and some judgments for fine tuning its implementations. Lot of judgments regarding reservations have been modified subsequently by Indian parliament through constitutional… … Wikipedia
Preferential bidding system — Preferential bidding is a method of solving transport workforce schedules consisting of specific flights and certain qualified crewmembers, or pairings , while allowing those crewmembers to request periodic work schedules using weighted… … Wikipedia
Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System — The construction of the Trans Alaska Pipeline System was a massive undertaking involving tens of thousands of people often in extreme temperatures and conditions. Specialized construction techniques were pioneered to build the pipeline, most of… … Wikipedia
Rota System — The Rota System, from the Old Church Slavic word for ladder or staircase , was a system of collateral succession practiced (though imperfectly) in Kievan Rus and later Appanage and early Muscovite Russia, in which the throne passed not linearly… … Wikipedia
merit system — noun the system of employing and promoting civil servants on the basis of ability • Ant: ↑spoils system • Hypernyms: ↑system, ↑system of rules * * * noun : the system of appointing employees to office in the civil service and of promoting them… … Useful english dictionary
