But this isn't just another story about laying off workers and outsourcing their jobs to Asia.
The economic downturn meant companies were laying off workers and skimping on health benefits.
But many firms, especially makers of cars and consumer goods, are laying off workers.
The joint venture is laying off workers and shedding divisions it acquired only a few years before.
The shift from coal is reverberating across Appalachia, where mining companies are laying off workers and cutting production.
Firms are not panicked into laying off workers they might otherwise have to hire back again at great cost.
Some courts have addressed budget shortfalls by laying off workers, cutting back on public defenders, and reducing the amount of cases heard.
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The government also prevented firms from laying off workers or closing factories.
While Herman Miller and other larger rivals are laying off workers, Humanscale is hiring to fill up its new 125, 000-square-foot plant in Piscataway, N.
Nonetheless, in this crisis, argues Mr Scarpetta, Kurzarbeit may have spared some illiquid but solvent companies from laying off workers simply to preserve cash.
While Herman Miller and other larger rivals are laying off workers, Humanscale is hiring to fill up its new 125, 000-square-foot plant in Piscataway, New Jersey.
And then on top of that, state and local governments, which retained employees when they were getting support from the Recovery Act, have been laying off workers.
Most cities are cutting costs by laying off workers instead.
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Mr Bowman has worked at this plant for nearly 30 years, and he spent too much of that time closing down lines and laying off workers as their jobs were shipped overseas.
The Federal Reserve recently issued a report stating employers in several regions are laying off workers and cutting back on new hires as a direct result of the president's health care law.
Even Microsoft began laying off workers.
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Now, this bill will also cut taxes for struggling businesses, with even larger cuts for small businesses, which means that thousands of entrepreneurs will get the cash they need to avoid laying off workers or closing their doors, and will extend the tax credit for all home buyers through April of next year while strengthening it with stronger anti-fraud measures.
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For their part, paternalistic companies have in the past shared jobs around when times were hard, rather than laying off surplus workers.
Critics say this is further evidence of inflexible European labour markets, as it reflects the difficulty firms have in laying off unwanted workers.
This might mean laying off unneeded workers, outsourcing or automating jobs.
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Last fall, Deputy Secretary of Labor Seth Harris visited the Pilgrim Screw Corporation, a fastener manufacturing firm that used work sharing to avoid laying off 35 workers in their Rhode Island facility.
He made a fortune helping companies send American jobs to China, India and Mexico, maximizing profits for himself and his investors while laying off American workers, gutting companies and devastating communities here at home.
One is that by the time Mr Hu and Mr Wen came to power in late 2002, the unpopular task of closing factories and laying off SOE workers in the north-east had largely been completed.
To the extent that employers respond to the employer mandate by reducing hiring, or even laying off existing workers, that will cause a loss of income tax and payroll tax revenues, further adding to the deficit.
Still, because employers are laying off fewer workers, net hiring has accelerated in recent months a sign that employers are confident about their prospects and haven't been discouraged by tax increases or higher gas prices.
And restrictive labour laws make firms reluctant to take on staff to meet a big one-off order, because of the difficulty of laying workers off later.
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They have reacted by radically restructuring their operations, closing plants and laying off thousands of workers.
Some are trying to handle rising caseloads, even as they're laying off the very workers who process applications.
Throw money into an industry that was laying off thousands of workers?
Curing them, however, requires steps that Japanese politicians still will not discuss in public: shutting sick institutions, laying their workers off, and wiping out their shareholders.
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