Sentence examples for laying them off from inspiring English sources

We're going to leverage our innovative people instead of laying them off".

Such euphemisms remind me of "rightsizing" instead of "downsizing," and "furloughing" workers instead of "laying them off".

The plans allow companies to cut working hours to hold onto highly skilled workers, rather than laying them off when times are tough.

Joel Klein, the schools chancellor, says the nonseniority system would allow the schools to keep promising young teachers instead of laying them off en masse.

"Businesses have gone from trying to hold onto workers, by reducing their hours, to laying them off in an effort to survive".

In their case, the company laying them off and sending their jobs overseas is Bain Capital, co-founded by the Republican presidential nominee, Mitt Romney.

Companies lay off workers to serve customers who lost their jobs in other companies who laid them off to sell cheaper.

If Anderson simply laid them off, those with seniority could "bump" junior colleagues.

In 2009, it finally laid them off altogether and closed the factory.

"The staff feel invested in it - when we made those job offers to them, we'd just laid them off.

He aspires to remind Americans "of the guy they work with, not the guy who laid them off".