Sentence examples for workers off from inspiring English sources

Micron is still the largest employer in the state, Mr. Adler said, although it laid workers off during the recession.

The airline cannot even afford to lay its workers off, because of the cost of mandatory benefits.

In order to spare 70,000 supporters gridlock and the authorities the attendant headaches state institutions, the city's main employer, and private firms alike let their workers off early.

Authorities accused Patel of filing a dozen false tax returns related to the motel — paying workers off the books and understating room receipts — and also using the state tax computer to monitor four rival motels around Branford.

They slashed wages, cut benefits and laid workers off without a moment of moral compunction.

In reality, however, the main effect of this liberal concept will be to make it easier and cheaper for businesses to lay workers off in order to recruit cheaper labour.

Instead, the government is quietly easing workers off the state payroll.

As mine and union officials tried to move workers off the hilltop, the struggle grew violent.

The candidate who kept black workers off the floors of his casinos.

Instead, the company paid its workers off-the-books wages that were well below the legal minimum.

Ordinary folks - settlement house workers, off-duty state Excise Department employees, dry-goods jobbers - moonlighted as denizens of the demimonde, going undercover to document a profusion of turpitude in the bustling city.