How To Use Laid-off In A Sentence
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My biggest fear is not that I will not be able to retire until I am 70 — it is that I will be foced to take retirement get laid-off at 55 and *not* be able to work until I turn 70.
The welfare state’s dirty little secret is out
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The report said demonstrators, composed of workers, laid-off employees, and pensioners from a Liaoyang ferroalloy factory, blocked the main road leading to the provincial capital, Shenyang.
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The spectacle of the semi-literate president instructing laid-off workers to ‘go get an education’ provided one of the most memorable impressions of the evening.
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With a laid-off father who likes drinking and often scolds him without reason, he says he hardly feels emotionally attached to his father.
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This means that laid-off staff have to queue up with all other unsecured creditors for whatever percentage of moneys owing is paid out after the Inland Revenue Department is satisfied.
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But then the man turns out to be a laid-off engineer who's putting on an act to gain sympathy.
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For instance, many downsizing employers invest in outplacement services, helping laid-off workers to find new jobs or to acquire new skills.
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What better chance to re-employ the hordes of laid-off middle-aged workers from State-owned companies and all for free, nay, even a substantial profit could result.
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That's largely because of a system called flexicurity that gives employers the freedom to hire and fire, while the state supports laid-off workers with generous benefits and training.
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Pepsi referred Ms. Service to an "outplacement" firm that specializes in helping laid-off employees get new work.
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They will now hold discussions with the union over rehiring other laid-off workers.
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Educators have suggested reducing class sizes from 40 students to less than 25 to re-employ laid-off teachers and raise standards.
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Even the superperson resulting from such a genetic break-through could still run headlong into the buzz saw of words heard by so many laid-off mid-level executives who have recently hit the streets:
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Some have used it as severance for laid-off workers.
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And if a high-balling shorthair found himself commiserating with a laid-off human middle manager at a tavern, we had no reason to bat an eye at his world's inner logic.
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And how might Fred compare his situation to that of his laid-off col-league, who became a free-lance entrepreneur?
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Nor will next-generation industries such as biotech and chip design provide many jobs for laid-off factory workers.
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And how might Fred compare his situation to that of his laid-off col-league, who became a free-lance entrepreneur?
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Some laid-off employees become entrepreneurs, working on ideas that have been ignored by corporate bureaucracies, while sclerotic firms in declining industries fail, making way for nimbler enterprises.
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In Racine, Wisconsin, a 51-year-old laid-off mechanic told me he was supplementing his diet by "shooting squirrels and rabbits and eating them stewed, baked, and grilled.
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They know that every public dollar slashed and every public employee laid-off or "furloughed" in the nation's most economically important state is another obstacle to Obama getting the economy moving again and thereby maintaining his popularity.
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Now, the smaller firms are fighting back by picking up laid-off bankers from big firms or entering partnerships.
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Meanwhile the union is training 250 union stewards to provide counseling and help in directing laid-off workers to aid agencies.