The weekly rise suggests more employers are letting workers go, but also indicates slow hiring, meaning laid-off workers are having a hard time finding new positions without a spell of joblessness. ❋ Conor Dougherty (2011)
This scheme of employing laid-off commercial fisherman could help them survive thru this ruined season although many commercial business's and indirect jobs from the very large commercial fishing hub would still be lost. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Many of these groups will benefit by hiring some of ACORN's laid-off staffers. ❋ Peter Dreier (2010)
This company, and many others like it, frequently offers laid-off employees the opportunity to interview for another position within the organization. ❋ Fred Whelan (2011)
Which means that the job cuts are resulting from a change in the industry/technology/customer needs/business, and that I understand although I don't like it that IBM isn't offering laid-off workers jobs in their profitable divisions, because the stock market likes it when companies "streamline." ❋ Unknown (2009)
The recession triggered some of the "hypergrowth" in both for-profit and public community college enrollments because they are more likely to enroll adults 25 and older, and laid-off workers often seek job retraining to upgrade their skills, he said. ❋ Unknown (2011)
The White House, Democratic leaders and some Republicans say the 50-year-old program helps laid-off workers learn new skills and find jobs in more vibrant industries. ❋ Elizabeth Williamson (2011)
Under a program Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg unveiled on Wednesday, the city wants to invest $45 million in government money to retrain investment bankers, traders and others who have lost jobs on Wall Street, as well as provide seed capital and office space for new businesses those laid-off bankers might create. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Earlier this month, city council passed a resolution accepting a $5.1 million federal grant to rehire laid-off firefighters. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Always wanted to be a fired astronaut or a laid-off unicorn tamer? ❋ Andy McDonald (2011)
Increasingly, small-business buyers are older, laid-off professionals seeking second acts, brokers say. ❋ Sarah Needleman (2011)
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. ❋ Unknown (2010)
While Fox does say the laid-off worker gets a small severance, there are no details about whether the participants will be paid for the series. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Several large car plants have recently laid-off thousands, while some of those layoffs led to early retirements, others claimed settlements. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Interviews with more than two dozen laid-off professionals across the country, including architects, former sales managers and executives who have taken on lower-paying, stop-gap jobs to help make ends meet, found that they were working for places like U.P.S., a Verizon Wireless call center and a liquor store. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Upstate, from Hoffman's Cooper's Town Productions and Entertainment One, focuses on the laid-off Roy Perkins, who relocates his family to rural America to work as a correctional officer in a new private for-profit prison. ❋ Unknown (2011)
If laid-off workers who have settled for part-time work or have given up looking for new jobs are included, the unemployment rate rose to 17 percent, the highest on records dating from 1994. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Nancy Huff: Now as you all know our oldest son [brennan] will be living with us after he got let go from his job at [petsmart]
[Brennan Huff]: I wasnt fired, i was laid off, but you wouldnt know the difference ❋ Talzaiet (2009)
I was [laid-off] from my job because the company was on [the verge] of [bankruptcy]. ❋ Strykerphoenix (2006)
[What happen] to your job
[O yeah] man I [got laid] off ❋ Jolt221 (2019)
[No way]! He [got Laid] Off? ❋ Maninacoma (2011)
"In part due to the occupational sodomy scheduled the following week to be inflicted upon the backbone of the company (otherwise known as the workforce); [Dick and Jane] threw caution to the wind and performed rectal fornication on the center of the President's Desk, thereby getting laid immediately prior to getting 'laid off', moreover; achieving the added bonus of spewing onto the company's errant [balance sheet] a copious amount of chocolatey chocolate chip [cocksnot] out of the shitty end of the fuckstick of Dick". ❋ Jon_public (2009)
