Many employers operated the truck system, whereby payment to the workers was made in part or totally by tokens.

American employers, in sharp contrast, have operated with much more "flexibility."

But your employer is operating out of personal generosity - and a desire to keep employees happy and on the job - rather than legal compulsion.

In many cases, employers are operating short-staffed, rather than push up pay to attract workers.

The monsters, subject to no natural control other than that apparently exacted by creatures we called mantas, were destroying the continent on which our employers operated.

When workers see that employers can operate without many employees, it makes them think twice about striking.

Currently around a third of UK employers operate such a scheme.

Other local employers operate in the forestry, paper, printing, farming and light manufacturing sectors.

It means employers can operate a kind of shift system for constant cover, at least until they reduce staffing below the number needed to operate like that.

The House of Lords stated that the employer had to devise a safe system and operate it.