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  2. Retained firefighter - Wikipedia

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    This involves talks to local school children, home safety checks, and fitting of free smoke detectors in homes. Some fire and rescue services employ a system known as "day manning" or "day staffing", where the fire station is operated by a full-time watch during the day and covered by retained firefighters at night.

  3. Underemployment - Wikipedia

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    "Overstaffing", "hidden unemployment", or "disguised unemployment" (also called "labor hoarding" [7]), the practice in which businesses or entire economies employ workers who are not fully occupied. For example, workers currently not being used to produce goods or services due to legal or social restrictions or because the work is highly seasonal.

  4. Discouraged worker - Wikipedia

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    Discouraged Workers (US, 2004-09) In the United States, a discouraged worker is defined as a person not in the labor force who wants and is available for a job and who has looked for work sometime in the past 12 months (or since the end of his or her last job if a job was held within the past 12 months), but who is not currently looking because of real or perceived poor employment prospects.

  5. Employer Explains Why He Won't Hire The Unemployed - AOL

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    discrimination against unemployed hiring Some job ads explicitly require applicants to be "currently employed," and Americans who have been out of work for a year or longer report employers ...

  6. Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005

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    Employment is to be provided within 5 km of an applicant's residence, and minimum legal wage under the law is to be paid. If work is not provided within 15 days of applying, applicants are entitled to an unemployment allowance. That is, if the government fails to provide employment, it has to provide certain unemployment allowances to those people.

  7. Unemployed Gen Zers are having to turn down work ... - AOL

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    After going through multiple interview rounds, impressing the hiring manager, and landing the gig, Gen Zers are being forced to turn the role down because of the costs associated with starting a ...

  8. Fire safety - Wikipedia

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    Fire safety equipment at a construction site in China Property loss caused by arson. Fire safety is the set of practices intended to reduce destruction caused by fire.Fire safety measures include those that are intended to prevent the ignition of an uncontrolled fire and those that are used to limit the spread and impact of a fire.

  9. Involuntary unemployment - Wikipedia

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    In these models, unemployment is voluntary in the sense that a worker might choose to endure unemployment during a long search for a higher paying job than those immediately available; however, there is an involuntary element in the sense that a worker does not have control of the economic circumstances that force them to look for new work in ...