Sentence examples for could lay off from inspiring English sources

"You could lay off and not get in much trouble".

The company could lay off as many as 200 additional workers, unless the Carpenter unit is bought.

Should a recession return, it is not clear how many additional workers businesses could lay off and still manage to function.

If total disaster struck, he figured he could lay off 45,000 of his 233,000 employees, cease all marketing and slash pay.

"If companies could lay off the risk of oil prices dropping below forty dollars a barrel, there would be enormous investment in this," Farrell told me.

More advertising agencies could close, and those remaining could lay off more employees in addition to the thousands already let go.

For all of Kit's childhood disappointments, all the times she was passed over for her beautiful and talented older sister, all those high strikes she couldn't hit but couldn't lay off — this was her moment.

Then the cultural view was that you couldn't lay off middle managers.

Bank of America, perhaps the most beleaguered of all banks, announced it could eventually lay off 30,000 employees as part of a wide-ranging plan to save $5 billion in annual costs by the end of 2013.

No one scene is all too bad, but taken in their entirety you wonder why Rand felt a rational woman couldn't lay off the creepy vibe and try plain vanilla sex once in awhile.

In a 59-page ruling that the parties received yesterday, the arbitrator, Shyam Das, concluded that Verizon violated a job-security provision that said the company could not lay off union workers unless an external event directly reduced the need for employees.