job protection
noun [U]Definition
› HR, LAW the legal rights that workers have to keep their job if they miss work because of illness, looking after a baby, a strike, etc.: The change in the law will increase job protection and make it harder to fire people.
(Definition of job protection noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
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