bumping rights
C1CEFR level
88/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
A senior employee's contractual entitlement to displace a more junior one during a layoff.
Her thirty years of seniority give her bumping rights over the newer clerk in the downsized unit.
Business noun
A senior worker's contractual entitlement to displace a more junior one to escape being laid off.
Under the union deal, the twenty-year veterans have bumping rights over anyone hired in the last decade.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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