Sentence examples for avert layoffs from inspiring English sources

Such measures, among others, could help avert layoffs.

Republicans say helping companies via tax cuts will avert layoffs, bolster stock prices and encourage investment.

Republicans say they want to help the economy by helping companies create jobs or avert layoffs.

"The intent is to help districts avert layoffs now," said Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers.

When it found itself in a similar financial situation last year, Mr. Bloomberg was able to avert layoffs by eliminating raises for teachers and principals for two years.

Hard-pressed states and localities that reduce prison costs will have more money to help the unemployed, avert layoffs of teachers and police officers, and keep hospitals operating.

Last year, an infusion of federal dollars averted layoffs, but some 410 aides were laid off on Friday.

(Not New York City, though, which averted layoffs of thousands of teachers after withholding across-the-board pay increases for teachers and principals for the next two years).

While employees represented by the Civil Service Employees Association averted layoffs, the Cuomo administration is still negotiating with a number of other unions, including the Public Employees Federation, which represents 56,000 employees and is the second-largest union of state employees.

But she's also done many progressive things: strengthening the rights of tenants, negotiating budget deals that averted layoffs of public-school teachers, and opposing fingerprinting for the recipients of food stamps.

Only an infusion of federal stimulus money allowed many states to avert deep layoffs last year.