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.
The Cradle of Indo-Europeans. The dawn of Indo-Europeans on the Ukrainian steppes. The rise of the Trypillian culture on the right bank of the Dnieper 7,000 years ago overshadowed the birth of Indo-European peoples on its left bank. The Indo-Europeans were a group of around 200 related peoples that inhabited Europe and Western Asia from India to Great Britain and the Pyrenees. They created the European civilizations whose cultural accomplishments contributed greatly to the progress of humankind over the past centuries.