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employment

[em-ploi-muhnt] / ɛmˈplɔɪ mənt /




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Its mega-churches offer not just a spiritual home but support with issues like childcare, employment advice and even food.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

The Catapult Workers Collective said the company’s sale included the assets only and that the union was notified their employment would not be rolled over to the new buyer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

Employees at Google have told the BBC that staff are scared to speak out about AI safety and its uses in warfare because their employment contracts prohibit them from publicly criticising the company.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

The report then scanned this across differences in NCD burden, prevention and care -- by age, gender, economic status, education, place of residence, disability status, employment and migration status.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

Yet by 1987, when the drug war hit high gear, the industrial employment of black men had plummeted to 28 percent.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

This lack of key inflation and employments reports is sure to complicate the Fed’s decision at its Dec. 9-10 meeting.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 21, 2025

"We have the last throw of the dice in order to bring back some part of that industry, if we don't then we have to look for alternative employments for the 820,000 people."

From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2023

The labor studies and employments relations major had seven punts downed inside the 20, including five inside the 10 and four inside the 5.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 19, 2019

"That is very unusual. Like many employments that are still unfilled, FAA administrator is an extremely important position," Captain Ross "Rusty" Aimer told Salon last week, before Trump had finally filled the position.

From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2019

To these my reply will be,—Evil will the day be which shall dawn on such devil’s-sabbath employments as these.

From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 by Various


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