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Go slow, Go-slow which is a picturesque description of deliberate delaying of production by workman pretending to be engaged in the factory is one of the most pernicious practices that discontented or disgruntled workmen some time resort to. It would not be far wrong to call this dishonest. For, while thus delaying production and thereby reducing the output the workmen claim to have remained employed and thus to be entitled to full wages. Apart from this also, 'go-slow' is likely to be much more harmful than total cessation of work by strike. For, while during a strike much of the machinery can be fully turned off, during the 'go-slow' the machinery is kept going on a reduced speed which is often extremely damaging to machinery parts. For all these reasons 'go-slow' has always been considered a serious type of misconduct, Bharat Sugar Mills Ltd. v. Jai Singh, (1962) 3 SCR 684: (1967) 2 LLJ 644....
go slow
A form of labor protest by workers in which they deliberately slow down in order to cause problems for their employers...
Slowness
The quality or state of being slow...
Away-going, or Way-going crops
Away-going, or Way-going crops, crops sown during the last year of a tenancy, but not ripe until after its expiration. The right which an out-going tenant has to take an away-going crop is sometimes given to him by the express terms of the contact, but, where that is not the case, he is generally entitled to do so by local custom or usage; such custom or usage has been held to be reasonable and valid, see Wigglesworth v. Dallison, 1 Sm LC, decided by Lord Mansfield in 1799, and to apply to tenants by parol agreement as well as by deed or written contract of demise, and this for the benefit and encouragement of agriculture; but modern farming agreements frequently bar any claim under it, and substitute a claim to compensation as found due by valuers....
go forward
go forward went forward gone forward going forward : to proceed with a lawsuit or a matter (as the presentation of evidence) in a lawsuit ...
going and coming rule
going and coming rule : a rule that an employee cannot receive workers' compensation benefits for injuries suffered while coming to or going from work see also special hazard rule, special mission exception ...
going private transaction
going private transaction : a corporate action (as a recapitalization, share repurchase, or tender offer) taken as part of going private ...
no go
not functioning properly or in suitable condition for proceeding as the space launch was no go Opposite of go a...
Going to the Country
Going to the Country. When a party, under the system of pleading before the Common Law Procedure Act, finished his pleading by the words, 'and of this he puts himself upon his country,' meaning that he intended to take the verdict of a jury upon the issue of fact; this was called 'going to the country.' It was the essential termination to a pleading which took issue upon a material fact in the preceding pleading. See VERIFICATION....
Off-going Crop
Off-going Crop. See AWAY-GOING CROPS....
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