Sentence examples for trimming the workforce from inspiring English sources

Panthers who got arrested, he said, were often turned in by their employers, as a way of trimming the workforce, or keeping the heat from the police at manageable levels.

While trimming the workforce in the high street bank, Barclays is in discussions with its shareholders about ways to get around the looming EU cap on bonuses for its investment bank staff by introducing a new "allowance" for its highest paid staff.

The household items giant (Huggies, Kotex, Kleenex) cut $400 million in costs during 2004 and 2005 by trimming the workforce and ditching a bunch of plants.

It's clear that some simple reorganisation could trim the workforce down to seven.

There would have been lots of potential synergies, including trimming the combined workforce (trickier in an all-French merger).

Although trimming the foreign workforce will theoretically free up jobs for locals, few Saudis seem likely to seek them, least of all those of the menial kind, which the kingdom's 19m citizens tend to shun.

He cut expenditures by, among other things, trimming the city's workforce and winning concessions from unions.

Republicans' proposal to trim the federal workforce through retirements and attrition faces opposition from Democrats who supported it as part of a big deficit-cutting package.

The benchmark companies may trim down the workforce during a downturn, but they do not cut funds for training.

The new cuts will trim the company's workforce to 8,500, a reduction of 28percentt.

He plans to cut state agencies' spending and to trim the state's workforce.