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re-employment

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noun

  1. the act or an instance of employing or being employed again

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Workers who lose jobs in fields hit by automation take a month longer to find new jobs and suffer 3% real earning losses after re-employment compared with workers displaced from other fields.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

He applied to the Tata Steel transition board, which had £100m of funds to help with the reskilling an re-employment of Tata workers.

From BBC • Sep. 29, 2025

“By pushing for termination, the district is taking a punitive approach that will deny workers re-employment rights,” said Max Arias, executive director of Local 99 of Service Employees International Union.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 19, 2021

“Our attention is focused on supporting Washingtonians with re-employment and increasing vaccination to ensure our economic recovery continues.”

From Seattle Times • Aug. 12, 2021

Later she incited a strike among the cloak cutters, which resulted disastrously for the workers, and when all the strikers submitted, she alone was refused re-employment, and doors were closed against her.

From A Speckled Bird by Wilson, Augusta J. Evans