secondary action
noun[U]
HR,WORKPLACEukusasituationin whichworkersin oneorganizationstriketo showsupportforworkersin anotherorganizationwho arestrikingabouttheirpay,workingconditions, etc.
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primary action
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secondary action
Enforcement of this chapter by state or local law enforcement agencies shall be accomplished as asecondaryaction.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.To produce pure flexion or extension at the wrist, these muscle therefore must act in pairs to cancel out each other'ssecondaryaction.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Primary action is extorsion (external rotation);secondaryactionis elevation; tertiary action is abduction (i.e. it extorts the eye and moves it upward and outwards).
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Fat finger, or fat-finger syndrome, a slang term, refers to an unwantedsecondaryactionwhen typing.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Immunity is removed fromsecondaryactionwhen taken by workers of one company to pressurise another company where there is no dispute between their workers and employers. g.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.That is what happens in the case ofsecondaryaction.
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In other words, this change in the definition will affect only one sort ofsecondaryaction, although a particularly abnoxious sort of action.
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Clearly, nobody wants any unnecessary risks taken, but neither should this be used as an excuse for what would otherwise be illegalsecondaryaction.
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The question of employers being part of a group and, therefore, subject to immunity when there issecondaryactionmust be discussed.
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There may be a good reason and it may be that the subsection applies only tosecondaryaction.
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