golden handcuffs

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golden handcuffs

special benefits offered to an employee as an inducement to continue service

golden handcuffs

pl.n. (used with a sing. verb)

A lucrative incentive to an employee intended to discourage resignation or to ensure long-term cooperation after departure.

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golden handcuffs

pl n

(Industrial Relations & HR Terms) informal payments deferred over a number of years that induce a person to stay with a particular company or in a particular job

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gold′en hand′cuffs

n.pl.

a series of raises, bonuses, etc., given at specified intervals or tied to length of employment so as to keep an executive from leaving the company.

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Came then, from the back of the room a procession headed by the high dignitary whose office it was to make these two man and wife, and directly behind him a richly-clad youth bearing a silken pillow on which lay the golden handcuffs connected by a short length of chain-of-gold with which the ceremony would be concluded when the dignitary clasped a handcuff about the wrist of each symbolizing their indissoluble union in the holy bonds of wedlock.

The dignitary lifted the golden handcuffs from the pillow upon which they reposed.

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The former chief constable, sacked for gross misconduct, was being sued by his ex-employer for PS500,000 in a bid to claw back salary and bonuses paid to him in a "golden handcuffs" deal which it claimed he should not have received in light of the scandal which led to his dismissal in 2012.

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He is also due to receive shares worth PS19.5 million by 2018 under previous 'golden handcuffs' arrangements with the group in his previous role, to prevent him from joining rivals.

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