work to rule: meaning & examples

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Language: English

Meanings:

  • 1.

    British EnglishInternational (labor contexts)neutralformal
    • To deliberately restrict one's work to the duties and hours expressly required by the contract or job description, refusing overtime, extra tasks, or discretionary effort as a form of industrial protest.

    Examples

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    • During the strike, the workers decided to work to rule, refusing to do any overtime or extra tasks.

      Durante la huelga, los trabajadores decidieron limitarse a cumplir estrictamente con sus tareas, negándose a hacer horas extras o tareas adicionales.

    • The employees worked to rule until the management agreed to negotiate better conditions.

      Los empleados cumplieron solo con lo estipulado hasta que la dirección accedió a negociar mejores condiciones.

    • Are you planning to work to rule as part of the protest against the new policies?

      ¿Planeas trabajar estrictamente según las reglas como parte de la protesta contra las nuevas políticas?

  • 2.

    British EnglishInternational (labor contexts)neutral
    • A collective industrial action in which employees carry out the practice described above in order to press demands or express grievances.

    Examples

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    • The union called for a work to rule action to pressure the company into raising wages.

      El sindicato convocó a una acción de trabajar estrictamente según las normas para presionar a la empresa a aumentar los salarios.

    • During the work to rule campaign, productivity slowed, but safety protocols were strictly followed.

      Durante la campaña de trabajar a reglamento, la productividad disminuyó, pero se siguieron estrictamente los protocolos de seguridad.

    • Workers united to work to rule until their grievances were addressed by the employer.

      Los trabajadores se unieron para trabajar estrictamente según las normas hasta que sus quejas fueran atendidas por el empleador.

Examples:

  • EN: Well, from now on, it's work to rule.
    ES: Bueno, de ahora en adelante, es un trabajo de gobernar.
  • EN: Meanwhile, the electricity workers are going ahead with their work to rule.
    ES: Mientras tanto, los electricistas siguen con su huelga de celo.
  • EN: We'll move her to a negative pressure isolation room while we work to rule it out.
    ES: La trasladaremos a una sala de aislamiento con presión negativa mientras trabajamos para descartarlo.
  • EN: Word at our station house is your nurses are on work to rule?
    ES: ¿Se dice en nuestra estación que vuestros enfermeros están en huelga de celo?
  • EN: ED nurses are moving to work to rule.
    ES: Las enfermeras de urgencias están convocando una huelga de celo.
  • EN: Plus: your thoughts on the phasing out of work to rule.
    HI: नौकरी त्यागने का तुम्हारा कदम
    HI: हमेशा नौकरी छोड़ने का मन करे
  • EN: For example, any active trade unionist will tell you that an effective way to stop anything in its tracks is to "work to rule."
    HI: वास्तव में, आतंक को "एक संकेत है कि आपके जीवन में कुछ भी ध्यान देने की आवश्यकता है" काम शुरू करने का एक प्रभावी ढंग से शांत तरीका है
  • EN: It is hard work to rule a starving populace.
    ID: Sulit untuk memerintah rakyat yang kelaparan.
  • EN: Because there is no test for Alzheimer's, physicians basically work to rule out all other causes for the symptoms.
    TE: అల్జీమర్స్ కోసం ఎలాంటి పరీక్ష ఉండనందున, వైద్యులు ప్రధానంగా లక్షణాలు కోసం అన్ని ఇతర కారణాలనూ పాలించటానికి పని చేస్తారు.
  • EN: Employees are continuing to work to rule to back up demands for a wage increase
    ES: Los empleados continúan trabajando a reglamento... respaldando las demandas por un aumento salarial.
  • EN: Prisoners' normal exercise periods and other privileges which were stopped during the work to rule will be restored tomorrow morning.
    ES: Los períodos de ejercicio de los pr¡s¡oneros y otros privileg¡os que se habían suspendido, volverán a empezar mañana.
  • EN: There's a work to rule.
    ES: Hay una huelga de celo.
  • EN: I said to the union bloke, I said it's a good job they didn't work to rule in 14-18 in the trenches in France.
    ES: Menos mal que no hubo huelga de celo en 1418... en las trincheras de Francia.
  • EN: Following a work to rule by train drivers...
    ES: Debido a un paro de los conductores...
  • EN: Well, blood work to rule out infection, and then a heart surgical biopsy to rule out rejection.
    ES: Bueno, estudios de la sangre para descartar una infección y luego una biopsia al corazón para descartar el rechazo.
    ID: Tes darah untuk memastikan infeksi, lalu bedah biopsi jantung untuk memastikan penolakan organ.

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