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Sentence: The Company holds travel insurance that covers employees while... #1 (permalink) Sat Dec 27, 2008 10:05 am   Sentence: The Company holds travel insurance that covers employees while...
 

Dear guys,

I feel very confused with the sentence below:

The Company holds travel insurance that covers employees while travelling on business and for personal travel when it is taken in conjunction with business travel.

Could you please help me to understand it or reword the sentence.

Thank you very much :D
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Sentense: The Company holds travel insurance that covers employees while... #2 (permalink) Sat Dec 27, 2008 14:51 pm   Sentense: The Company holds travel insurance that covers employees while...
 

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The company has insurance for employees when they are travelling for the company's benefit.
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Sentense: The Company holds travel insurance that covers employees while... #3 (permalink) Mon Dec 29, 2008 7:04 am   Sentense: The Company holds travel insurance that covers employees while...
 

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The company has insurance for employees when they are travelling for the company's benefit.


He he. You won't make a good HR, MM. :D You need to be pretty longwinded and should sound like you are doing employees a big favour when you are making a policy.
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Sentense: The Company holds travel insurance that covers employees while... #4 (permalink) Mon Dec 29, 2008 7:52 am   Sentense: The Company holds travel insurance that covers employees while...
 

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What is your point and how does it apply to Liqichao's question, Daemon?
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Sentense: The Company holds travel insurance that covers employees while... #5 (permalink) Mon Dec 29, 2008 8:21 am   Sentense: The Company holds travel insurance that covers employees while...
 

Sorry MM. I should have explained what I meant.

When I saw Liqichao's question I understood it was about an HR policy and the way I looked at it I felt it was an employee-friendly policy.

But when you interpreted it saying that there would be insurance only when they travel for company's benefit, it didn't sound employee-friendly. That's why I made those comments.

Sorry if I still don't make sense.
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Sentense: The Company holds travel insurance that covers employees while... #6 (permalink) Mon Dec 29, 2008 8:29 am   Sentense: The Company holds travel insurance that covers employees while...
 

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Do you see any difference in meaning between Liqichao's sentence and my paraphrase?
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Sentense: The Company holds travel insurance that covers employees while... #7 (permalink) Mon Dec 29, 2008 8:44 am   Sentense: The Company holds travel insurance that covers employees while...
 

I don't see any difference as such. It's just that you didn't mention personal travel in your paraphrase. That's what I wanted to point out.
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Sentense: The Company holds travel insurance that covers employees while... #8 (permalink) Mon Dec 29, 2008 8:55 am   Sentense: The Company holds travel insurance that covers employees while...
 

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It is subsumed within 'travelling for the company's benefit'. The original states 'personal travel when it is taken in conjunction with business travel'.
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