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.
Expansion. Most European languages belong to the Indo-European language family. The proto-language of this family (known as Proto-Indo-European or simply Indo-European) emerged in far eastern Europe, from where it spread westward across Europe and eastward into Asia.This great Indo-European expansion occurred primarily during the period ca. 2000-1000 BC. 1.ranches. The Indo-European language family has four main living branches: Indo-Iranian, Balto-Slavic, Germanic, and Italic. In the family tree provided below, the languages in the bottom boxes are the largest member language(s) of their respective branches.