Sentence examples for attempt to lay off from inspiring English sources

The size of the payoffs that can be awarded by French courts are a major reason why many French companies are reluctant to hire new staff on permanent contracts and to attempt to lay off existing employees.

The local's president, John Samuelsen, who has been in office since Jan . 1 has said he will vigorously oppose any attempts to lay off his members.

This is the Goliath (City Council) who is in court because he didn't follow the rules in attempting to lay off half the city's workforce.

"Same smoke, same mirrors, same attempt to blame others for his decision to lay off thousands of teachers," said Michael Mulgrew, president of the United Federation of Teachers.

The raise also follows on the news in December that Citigroup was going to lay off 11,000 employees in an attempt to reduce its operations in emerging markets during tough times for bink banks.

In a continued attempt to reduce its costs, AT&T announced yesterday that it planned to lay off 5,000 employees this year.

Tom Daley has been told to lay off his favourite foods as he attempts to get back to the top of world diving.

That, plus poor results on some clinical trials, caused Amylin's stock to plunge to less than 40 cents and forced the company to lay off 80percentt of its work force in a desperate attempt to survive.