multiemployer

English

Etymology

multi- +‎ employer

Adjective

multiemployer (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to more than one employer.

Noun

multiemployer (plural multiemployers)

1. One of a group of multiple employers who work cooperatively on one or more personnel issues.
   • 1978, United States. Bureau of the Census, Industrial statistics data finder, page 20:

     The reports are derived from employment and payroll information reported on Treasury Form 941, Schedule A, supplemented by a special survey of selected multiemployers.

   • 2007, JaeWhan Kim, Health insurance and workers' retention in the construction industry, page 62:

     To the extent that health insurance locks workers in to a group of multiemployers providing health insurance, this form of job lock permits those employers and their corresponding union to consider investing in industry-specific human capital.