For example, employees who refuse to work overtime could be transferred to other positions where they do not have to work overtime. If this does not work, those employees could be retrenched. The employer can then hire new employees who will work overtime (and who agree to do so in their contract of employment).
â¢ INDO-EUROPEAN (noun). The noun INDO-EUROPEAN has 2 senses: 1. a member of the prehistoric people who spoke Proto-Indo European. 2. the family of languages that by 1000 BC were spoken throughout Europe and in parts of southwestern and southern Asia. Familiarity information: INDO-EUROPEAN used as a noun is rare.
1.1 The Indo-European family of languages. Example sentences. 1  English is shown within a partial family tree of Indo-European. 2  Pashtu belongs to the North-Eastern group of languages within the Iranian branch of Indo-European.3  Alliterative meter also seems to predominate in the very earliest texts from the third western branch of Indo-European, Italic. A speaker of an Indo-European language, especially Proto-Indo-European. Example sentences. 1  Some of the women are ethnically Iranian, which means that they are Indo-Europeans, and speak Persian.