job security
Workplace permanence assurance
Job security is the likelihood that you'll keep your job—freedom from the threat of layoffs, termination, or the company folding.
Some industries and positions offer more job security than others: Government jobs have great job security but lower salaries.
The term often appears in discussions of employment benefits and career choices: She took the corporate job for the job security.
- layoffTermination without cause
- collective bargainingJoint worker-employer talks
- employmentPaid occupation status
- contractEnforceable written agreement
- tenureProtected employment status
permanent position · career · nine to five · severance pay · probationary period · permanence · seniority · golden handcuffs · employee retention · overtime pay · wrongful termination · stability · safe bet · minimum wage · paycheck · union representation · reliability · pension
- job securityjob protection, job retention, permanent position, job stability, seniority
- work problemslayoff, firing, low pay, burnout, deadline pressure
- personal concernspriorities, values, goals, beliefs, needs
- labor lawlabor code, labor law, labor laws, labor standards, labour law
- federal employmentfederal jobs, federal employees, federal workers, federal workforce, government workers
- government employmentfederal employees, government salaries, public sector jobs, pay grades, job classification
job securityjob insecurity
Uncertainty about continued employment
precariousness · temporary employment · casual employment · gig work · short-term contracts
job securityat-will employment
Job without guaranteed duration
gig work · gig economy · contract work · temporary employment · freelancing