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Etymology: from gerund of featherbed (II)
: the requiring of an employer usually under a union rule or by safety statute to pay more employees than are needed for a particular operation or to pay full wages for nonproductive labor or unnecessary or duplicating jobs or made-work or for output artificially restricted below normal working capacity