Sentence examples for lay them off from inspiring English sources

All 28 of them survived, he said, though he later had to lay them off.

Firms were content to take on temporary workers, often immigrants, because they knew they could easily lay them off again.

–A higher wage floor will hurt its intended beneficiaries, because it forces employers to lay them off.

He had others but had to lay them off since the slaughterhouse man has him over a barrel.

In Austria, Germany and Belgium, the governments paid companies to put workers on short-time work rather than lay them off.

In Pennsylvania, if I fire employees without cause or lay them off, I have to pay a large portion of their unemployment benefits out of my own pocket.

If you can't tell where the strings go since you took them off, lay them over the fretboard to see where they will go, and then remove them again to make the marks.

The next morning we finish them off, then lay them out on the cooling floor – which is the wooden floor upstairs – to cool them down so that they keep their colour and retain their bitterness.

When the lavender is grown, cut some of the heads off and lay them on the table.

Hey, lay off them violins for a minute!

Those balls, you got to lay off them.