0 a period of time after an employee leaves a job when they continue to be paid but are not allowed to go to work or to begin a new job:
1 in the UK, a period of time after an employee leaves a job when they continue to be paid but are neither allowed to go to work nor to begin a new job. Important employees are sometimes put on gardening leave so that they cannot give private information about their previous employer to a new employer:
Others have been ordered to take study leave, special leave, sick leave or gardening leave, which sounds attractive at first sight.
As soon as we received the first verbal report of the investigating accountants, we put all the executive directors on gardening leave.
Staff do not qualify for "gardening leave".
Hoffman was to receive a package worth around 500,000 for his gardening leave, but decided to turn it down.
The chief executive is at home, taking what the civil service calls gardening leave.
How many experienced civil servants are to be sent home on gardening leave pending their new employment?
Unwanted civil servants used to be sent on "gardening leave".
Civilian staff on gardening leave are individuals who are genuinely surplus because there is no suitable employment for them, or because their circumstances prevent them from taking up that employment.
