stop-work meeting

noun [C] HR, WORKPLACE

Definition

› in Australia and New Zealand, a situation in which employees stop working and have a long meeting as a way of expressing disagreement with management over pay, holidays, etc.

(Definition of stop-work meeting noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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