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A clawback provision is a contractual clause typically included in employment contracts by financial firms, by which money already paid to an employee must be paid back to the employer under certain conditions. The employees' bonuses are, in a clawback scheme, tied specifically to the performance (or lack thereof) of the financial product (s ...
Refusal of work. v. t. e. A sabbatical (from the Hebrew: שַׁבָּתŠabat (i.e., Sabbath); in Latin sabbaticus; Greek: sabbatikosσαββατικός) is a rest or break from work; "an extended period of time intentionally spent on something that’s not your routine job." [ 1 ]
Pro bono. Pro bono publico (English: 'for the public good'), usually shortened to pro bono, is a Latin phrase for professional work undertaken voluntarily and without payment. The term traditionally referred to provision of legal services by legal professionals for people who are unable to afford them.
Extortion is the practice of obtaining benefit (e.g., money or goods) through coercion. In most jurisdictions it is likely to constitute a criminal offence; the bulk of this article deals with such cases. Robbery is the simplest and most common form of extortion, although making unfounded threats in order to obtain an unfair business advantage ...
t. e. In contract law, an indemnity is a contractual obligation of one party (the indemnitor) to compensate the loss incurred by another party (the indemnitee) due to the relevant acts of the indemnitor or any other party. The duty to indemnify is usually, but not always, coextensive with the contractual duty to "hold harmless" or "save harmless".
Nearly six years after allegedly staging a racist and homophobic attack on himself, Jussie Smollett's career has "hit bottom," according to experts.
Slang terms for money often derive from the appearance and features of banknotes or coins, their values, historical associations or the units of currency concerned. Within a language community, some of the slang terms vary in social, ethnic, economic, and geographic strata but others have become the dominant way of referring to the currency and are regarded as mainstream, acceptable language ...
Look up shill or Shill in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A shill, also called a plant or a stooge, is a person who publicly helps or gives credibility to a person or organization without disclosing that they have a close relationship with said person or organization, or have been paid to do so. Shills can carry out their operations in the ...