Sentence examples for for laying off from inspiring English sources

In 2007, the program was expanded, and businesses were asked their reasons for laying off workers.

There are no immediate plans for laying off employees or closing imprints.

In 1993, the year he joined VW, the hard numbers argued for laying off 30,000 workers.

Mr. Bloomberg had called for laying off 4,100 teachers in the proposed budget he released last month.

And the company was known for laying off employees without warning and sometimes refusing to pay severance.

Most of those workers are on shortened workweeks, to avoid the need for laying off even more people.

I've been out of work since February, when the small newspaper I wrote for laid off half its newsroom.

The U.A.W. program, called the Jobs Bank at G.M., provided nearly full pay for laid off workers while they waited for new jobs.

After the Texas software company he worked for laid off 350 people last spring, including him, he decided to apply to the master's program in software engineering at the University of Texas at Austin.

Programs like this already exist for laid off workers, but these programs could expand to encompass everyone.

At a June job fair in Houston for laid off aerospace workers, 68 companies came looking for as many as 4,000 new employees, Mitchell said.