Meaning of lifetime job | Babel Free

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A job in which one remains for one's whole career until one's retirement.

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“So, while choice of military service as a lifetime-job preference should be indicative of an orientation to military life, the reverse is not true: many people may be predisposed to service life without expressing it as a job preference.”

“The lifetime-job program⟳ was one of the concessions that the UAW won from Ford, and later from General Motors, in return⟳ for labor cost⟳ savings during contract negotiations […] Perhaps it is this rethinking of labor’s needs, on the parts of both unions and management, that will surface as the most important gain⟳ from the lifetime-job experiment⟳.”

“Toyota Creates Work⟳ Contracts Challenging Lifetime-Job System”

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