featherbedding

About 0.05 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb present participle and gerund of featherbed
2. noun The employment of more workers than is necessary, typically because of labor union rules (or sometimes deals with organized crime, a government, etc), especially upon the introduction of new technology.

Similar words

short-staffing underrecruitment bunching underloading workfarce keybedding undermatching underapplication undermanagement underresourcing

Often followed by

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Word family

featherbeddings