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.
one of the largest linguistic families of Eurasia. The general feature of the Indo-European languages that sets them apart from the languages of other families is basically the presence of a certain number of regular correspondences among formal elements of various levels that are associated with the same units of content (borrowings are excluded).