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00:03 Dec 17, 2011

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Bus/Financial - Human Resources / unemployment

French term or phrase: activité reduite courte/longue

Clearly it refers to underemployment.

"Activité reduite courte" is underemployment under 78 hours a month.
"Activité reduite longue" is undermployment over 78 hours a month.

I though about highly underemployed, but perhaps someone who works 75 hours a month would be happy working just a little more, so this sort of approach doesn't really work.

"Shorter/longer hours of underemployment" also seems to be another possibility, but I'm not all that keen on that rendition.

njweatherdon
Canada

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reduced/extended short-time working (hours)

gallagy2

reduced/extended working hours/work schedule for the underemployed

David Hollywood

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reduced/extended working hours/work schedule for the underemployed

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or: reduced/extended underemployment work schedule

David Hollywood
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reduced/extended short-time working (hours)

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also known as short-term work or short-time compensation

economistsview.typepad.com/.../is-short-time-work-a-good-way-to-fi...

31 Jan 2011 – I know there are some big fans of using short-time work programs to combat unemployment during recessions. Here's some mostly favorable ...

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An important distinction refers to the use of short-time work either as a form of unemployment benefit or to increase internal flexibility, especially in those cases ...

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Short-time work is an option within the unemployment insurance systems that allows ... work schemes, and among the English-speaking countries Canada, ...

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really think "underemployment" is NOT the correct term to use here. See definition below. From my reading and knowledge of the Unemployment categories that are actually entitled to income supplements you have "Casual" and "short-time" workers. The former get work from time to time, sometimes for a day, sometimes a week and are docked unemployment benefit for the days they work. The latter are on short time because their employer hasn't enough work but wants to retain them, so they have an income supplement from the Dole to increase their incoome a bit

Definition of 'Underemployment'
A measure of employment and labor utilization in the economy that looks at how well the labor force is being utilized in terms of skills, experience and availability to work. Labor that falls under the underemployment classification includes those workers that are highly skilled but working in low paying jobs, workers that are highly skilled but work in low skill jobs and part-time workers that would prefer to be full-time. This is different from unemployment in that the individual is working but isn't working at their full capability.

www.investopedia.com/terms/u/underemployment.asp

Underemployment - Definition of Underemployment on Investopedia - A measure of employment and labor utilization in the economy that looks at how well the ...

Read more: http://www.investopedia.com/terms/u/underemployment.asp#ixzz...

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The context here I believe is "short-time" work so tyou could just use the hours

short-time work of less than 78 hrs ...or more.

gallagy2
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