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Gardening leave

Siow steaming Goodchild had accepted an offer to move from

UBS to Couns, and because the two banks are in direct

competition he was, as he expected to be, put straight

on to gardenlng leave ....•

. ... Today more than 220 vessels are practicing
slow steaming - cruising al 20 knots on open wateT
inslead of the standard 24 or 25 - or, like Maersk's
vessels, 'super-slow steaming' ( 12 knols)."
The NeIN rork Timcs

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The Guardian

A ship that goes "full steam ahead " (I/olle Kraft UürallS)

sails ar top speed. The term "stea m " comes from the

days of sreamships (Dampfschiffe). "Slow srea ming"-

that is, sailing ar speed s much sla wer chan normal TO

save fuel , b ur a lso because o f red uced demand - has

become sta nda rd prac rice fo r container liners (Colltaj·

nerlinie ,zschi{fe). On Same lo ng-haul ra utes (Lang-

streck en), ships pracrise "extra-slow srearning" ar 1 7-'19

knots, or "super-slow steaming" a r 12 - 16 knots.

In the UK, "gardening lea ve" is an en forccd period o f

fuHy p ai d leavc ( Be u rlallbllng mit voller Lohn -

fort zahllfng) givcn 10 sta ff who m ay t h rcaten a fir m

by di stribu ting se nsi tive informa tion (vertrauliche Fir-

m eninformatio n en ). Ouring [his period, a confjden -

ria liry a greement (Geheimhaltllngsverein banmg) ap-

piles, and rhe emp loyee is fo r bidden access to th e firm

o r its cl ients. Gardening leave is ofren g iven to ma n-

agers during a notice period

(Kündigllngsfrist), or to th ose

who've had bad public it y.

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