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39 examples of Seniority in a sentence

When Danone, the food company, wanted to translate its new company manifesto into product initiatives, it gathered the management team and 100 employees from across different departments, seniority levels and regions for a three-day strategy retreat.
One is seniority.
Recreational drugs, casual sex, and the challenging of parental authority became in vogue and replaced the more time honored traditions of respect for God, country and seniority.
What is the seniority ranking of GDP-linked bonds relative to other sovereign debt?
Moreover, some benefits – for example, parental leave – are conditional on seniority within a company.
At least for workers with seniority in a firm, it also means taking into account the psychological costs associated with losing a long-held job.
If a firm lays off a worker, it should pay a layoff tax that is equal, at least on average, to the unemployment benefits that will be paid to the laid-off worker; to compensate for psychological costs, it should pay severance payments that increase in line with workers' seniority.
But they should not be accorded the degree of respect or deference that their seniority and government positions would normally merit.
Their new leader, King Abdullah, appears to have legitimacy because of his seniority in the family.
But a sovereign default would require a much larger bank bailout than in Greece, potentially leaving private debt almost worthless if official debt has seniority.
Public administration, too, must be overhauled to promote efficiency by rewarding hard work and quality of service, not seniority and over-manning.
Under this scheme, job-security provisions, mainly in the form of mandated severance payments, should increase steadily as workers acquire seniority.
For example, in appointing Lieutenant General Bipin Rawat as Chief of Army Staff, the government bypassed two higher-ranking generals, flouting time-honored principles of seniority.
The exception is the US military, which pays teachers according to the same scale as other defense department employees, based on criteria like training, education, seniority, and experiences.
There is a simple, if radical, solution: abrogate the legal provisions that regulate the duration of employment contracts, and return the treatment of tenure and seniority to collective bargaining, as is the case elsewhere.
The logical complement of such freedom would be to make employers pay for the social costs of plant closings, by levying a tax on layoffs, which would increase with seniority.
Right and Left swapped seniority around a barely-existent central pole.
Iranians have a sense of seniority, if not superiority, born of a rich and ancient culture that has survived into modern times.
Though the IMF is supposed to have seniority over other creditors, there will be demands to write down a share of the loans that it has issued.
They could close Japan’s salary gender gap – wider than in any OECD country except South Korea – in part by establishing rules that reward performance rather than seniority.
This brings us to the third reason why the IMF should stay out of Europe’s crisis: what if Fund seniority fails?
It is this seniority that enables the IMF to limit the risk of default so that it can lend to countries at reasonable interest rates when nobody else will.
But seniority is not written in stone: poor economies that are unable to repay even the IMF are eligible for debt reduction under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries program, and 35 have received it since the program was established in 1996.
The IMF’s seniority is an unwritten principle, sustained in a delicate equilibrium, and high-volume lending is testing the limit.
This arrangement could be seen as an unwarranted abuse of Fund seniority that, in addition, unfairly frees the ECB from the need to impose its own conditionality on one of its members.
Not only was there no new leadership, but the seniority system and the omnipresence of "senior advisors" continued to prevail throughout Japanese institutions.
Their employment is protected by seniority and union rules, and also often by government regulations that limit layoffs.
Likewise, they now recognize that bailout loans that give the new lender seniority over other creditors worsen the position of private investors, who will simply demand even higher interest rates.
By establishing the seniority rule for the most important Supreme Court appointment, Sharif has depoliticized the process.
They should also allow wages to decline after a certain age – rather than increase with seniority – to reflect the fast depreciation of professional skills in modern economies and boost older employees’ appeal.