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"is laid off" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when someone has been fired from their job due to restructuring or other financial reasons. For example: "Many employees were shocked when the company announced that over half of its workforce is laid off."
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When a parochial school is closed, everyone is laid off.
Consider someone who is laid off from his job.
Now he despairs of marrying her anytime soon, especially if he is laid off again.
Spud is laid off from his job as a removals man.
There is a rush to cover checks, and most of the staff is laid off.
Soon, Milo is laid off, left with raising his son, a distant wife, and nothing to do.
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Philadelphia is laying off 1,400 people.
Workers were laid off.
Ultimately, she was laid off.
No one was laid off.
"Everybody's been laid off.
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