work-to-rule
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See also: work to rule
English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- work to rule (noun)
Etymology[edit]
Deverbal from work to rule.
Noun[edit]
work-to-rule (plural work-to-rules)
- A labor protest in which employees do only the minimum work required by the rules of a workplace, following safety or other regulations to the letter in order to cause a slowdown.
Usage notes[edit]
- A work-to-rule job action is a less severe form of labor protest than a strike, in which employees refuse to do any work.
Translations[edit]
labor protest in which the minimum work is carried out
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Adjective[edit]
work-to-rule (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to such a protest.
- 2008 June 11, “EL doctors threaten ‘work to rule’ action”, in Dispatch Online[1], South Africa, retrieved 26 June 2008:
- Disgruntled by chronic staff shortages, doctors threatened a “work-to-rule” action at the East London Hospital Complex by the end of this week.