Spanish practices
(UK) Irregular practices in favour of the workers at a place of work, which are implied, but not specified, in the work contract.
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(UK) Irregular practices in favour of the workers at a place of work, which are implied, but not specified, in the work contract.
Many in the newspaper business – including some who criticised Murdoch at the time – now concede that the end of Fleet Street's Spanish practices probably helped prolong the life of the British press by a good few decades.
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