What's the difference between employment and redundancy?

Employment


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of employing or using; also, the state of being employed.
  • (n.) That which engages or occupies; that which consumes time or attention; office or post of business; service; as, agricultural employments; mechanical employments; public employments; in the employment of government.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We conclude that first-transit and blood-pool techniques are equally accurate methods for determining EF when the time-activity method of analysis is employed.
  • (2) Not only do they give employers no reason to turn them into proper jobs, but mini-jobs offer workers little incentive to work more because then they would have to pay tax.
  • (3) An association of cyclophosphamide, fluorouracil and methotrexate already employed with success against solid tumours in other sites was used in the treatment of 62 patients with advanced tumours of the head and neck.
  • (4) Size analysis of the solubilized IgA IP employing sucrose density gradient ultracentrifugation, indicated that these were heterogeneous, with a size generally larger than 19 S.
  • (5) DI James Faulkner of Great Manchester police said: “The men and women working in the factory have told us that they were subjected to physical and verbal assaults at the hands of their employers and forced to work more than 80-hours before ending up with around £25 for their week’s work.
  • (6) A 24-h test trial employing a dry target demonstrated a robust memory for the training manifested in passive avoidance behavior.
  • (7) Survival was independent of the type of clinical presentation and protocol employed but was correlated with the stage (P less than 0.0005), symptoms (P less than 0.025), bulky disease (P less than 0.025) and bone marrow involvement (P less than 0.025).
  • (8) In documents due to be published by the bank, it will signal a need to shed costs from a business that employs 10,000 people as it scrambles to return to profit.
  • (9) For the detection of this antigen, a double antibody sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was employed.
  • (10) The move would require some secondary legislation; higher fines for employers paying less than the minimum wage would require new primary legislation.
  • (11) Focusing on two prospective payment systems that operated concurrently in New Jersey, this study employs the hospital department as the unit of analysis and compares the effects of the all-payer DRG system with those of the SHARE program on hospitals.
  • (12) Another important factor, however, seems to be that patients, their families, doctors and employers estimate capacity of performance on account of the specific illness, thus calling for intensified efforts toward rehabilitation.
  • (13) Employed method of observation gave quantitative information about the influence of odours on ratios of basic predeterminate activities, insect distribution pattern and their tendency to choose zones with an odour.
  • (14) They also said no surplus that built up in the scheme, which runs at a £700m deficit, would be paid to any “sponsor or employer” under any circumstances.
  • (15) Several dimensions of the outcome of 86 schizophrenic patients were recorded 1 year after discharge from inpatient index-treatment to complete a prospective study concerning the course of illness (rehospitalization, symptoms, employment and social contacts).
  • (16) I wish to clarify that for the period 1998 to 2002 I was employed by Fifa to work on a wide range of matters relating to football,” Platini wrote.
  • (17) Reasons for non-acceptance do not indicate any major difficulties in the employment of such staff in general practice, at least as far as the patients are concerned.
  • (18) In the present study, 125 oesophageal biopsies obtained under direct vision at endoscopy from 22 patients with Barrett's oesophagus were systematically studied using fluorescence and peroxidase antiperoxidase single and double-staining immunocytochemical methods employing highly specific antibodies to localize the following peptide-containing cell types in Barrett's mucosa: gastrin, somatostatin, gastric inhibitory polypeptide, motilin, neurotensin and pancreatic glucagon.
  • (19) The reference cohort consisted of 1725845 men otherwise gainfully employed.
  • (20) L-Leucine-(14)C and sodium pyruvate-3-(14)C were employed to measure globin and heme synthesis, respectively.

Redundancy


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality or state of being redundant; superfluity; superabundance; excess.
  • (n.) That which is redundant or in excess; anything superfluous or superabundant.
  • (n.) Surplusage inserted in a pleading which may be rejected by the court without impairing the validity of what remains.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Hexokinase, phoshofructokinase, and aldolase appear to be rate-limiting in normal cervix epithelium; however, since the increase in activity of the first two in cancers was least of all the glycolytic enzymes, redundant enzyme synthesis probably occurs in the malignant cell for the enzymes catalysing reversible reactions.
  • (2) Fifty-one severely retarded adults were taught a difficult visual discrimination in an assembly task by one of three training techniques: (a) adding and reducing large cue differences on the relevant-shape dimension; (b) adding and fading a redundant-color dimension; or (c) a combination of the two techniques.
  • (3) A factor analysis of the ratings given by standards monitoring teams to these 410 homes failed to demonstrate redundancy across standards or grouping of standards by objectives.
  • (4) Light and electron microscopy showed that polyneuronal innervation was retained in mutant endplates, and the normal process of withdrawal of redundant innervation did not occur.
  • (5) Carmon Creek is wholly owned by Shell, which said it expected the decision to cost $2bn in its third-quarter results due to impairment, contract provision, redundancy and restructuring charges.
  • (6) These results suggest that the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 LTR possesses functional redundancy which ensures virus replication in different T-cell types and is capable of changing depending on the particular combination of transcriptional factors present.
  • (7) Lloyds said it would achieve many of the job cuts through making less use of contractors and voluntary severance but admitted that some compulsory redundancies may be inevitable.
  • (8) The redundant tissue exhibited an increase in connective tissue components and an inflammatory infiltrate primarily of plasma cells.
  • (9) So far there have been 50 voluntary redundancies from editorial and a further 82 commercial jobs have been cut.
  • (10) In the presence of a normal resting ECG, with no hemodynamically-meaningful mitral regurgitation and no evidence of redundant mitral leaflets the risk is even less.
  • (11) Consequently, Young's classification now seems redundant.
  • (12) Staff at ITN On have already entered a redundancy consultation with their employer and the National Union of Journalists.
  • (13) The basement membrane is multilaminated with a highly redundant basal lamina.
  • (14) As well, two-dimensional 15N-1H heteronuclear spectroscopy was used to resolve a number of ambiguities present in the homonuclear spectra due to resonance redundancies.
  • (15) But the Afghan redundancy programme offered the chance to relocate to Britain only to interpreters who were still serving British forces in Helmand province in December 2012 and were employed for more than 12 months.
  • (16) The redundancies are due to be completed by the end of January.
  • (17) We propose that the deletion of the rRNA operon occurred in the ilv-leu gene cluster of the B. subtilis genome as a result of unequal recombination between redundant sequences.
  • (18) However, older adults, relative to young adults, exhibited greater reductions in accuracy as the processing requirements increased, and they made significantly more redundant or repetitive requests for information.
  • (19) The present study, however, qualitatively evaluates the unsharpness of redundant shadows of the mandibular ramus, especially with reference to the effects of first-slit width.
  • (20) Patients with redundant leaflets may be at high risk of sudden death.