Meaning of natural wastage | Babel Free

Definitions

Decrease of workforce caused by non-replacement of retiring or voluntarily resigning employees and not by deliberate layoffs.

British, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Of the total labour force now threatened with redundancy, of course, a proportion will be covered by natural wastage, so that the number eventually thrown out of railway work will be well below 19,000.”

“From just over 476,500 employees in 1962, by 1973 the total was just over 250,000. Much of this was achieved via 'natural wastage' - controlling recruitment closely and not replacing staff as they retired.”

CEFR level