But this isn't just another story about laying off workers and outsourcing their jobs to Asia.
Democrats had been pushing for extending benefits to laid-off workers as unemployment rates continue to rise.
The current contract guarantees that laid off workers still receives most of their pay and benefits.
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Earlier this year, the company laid off workers for the first time in ten years.
The National Labor Relations Board can also require an employer to rehire the laid off workers.
As a businessman, will it increase my costs and force me to lay off workers?
The economic downturn meant companies were laying off workers and skimping on health benefits.
The changes freeze wages and cut certain benefits such as the jobs bank for laid-off workers.
Union contracts also make it difficult for management to lay-off workers and utilize part-time employees.
As her company laid off workers, she was promoted to help run its downsizing effort.
America's more flexible jobs market makes it far easier and cheaper to lay off workers.
But many firms, especially makers of cars and consumer goods, are laying off workers.
The key to that should be a recent deal over payments to laid-off workers.
The committee option worked in 1984 for 18, 000 laid-off workers of Ames Department Stores.
Once those mills close, the businesses that supply them also would be forced to lay off workers.
The joint venture is laying off workers and shedding divisions it acquired only a few years before.
Prescott said that the laid off workers went to the Twin Cities and quickly found higher-paying employment.
Companies sometimes lay off workers before selling assets to make them more profitable and attractive to buyers.
Indeed, often stock prices rise as firms lay off workers to drive up profits through leaner payrolls.
They slashed state unemployment benefits and rejected federally funded Emergency Unemployment Compensation to 170, 000 laid-off workers.
Cost is clearly a major issue for most laid-off workers, says Karen Davis, president of the Commonwealth Fund.
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Earlier this month, for instance, Caterpillar announced plans to lay off workers in Milwaukee, Decatur, Ill. and Brussels.
In many sectors, there are legitimate economies of scale that prevent laid-off workers from self-organising into smaller firms.
And still, but for the charges to write down assets and lay off workers, Donnelley would be profitable.
The current financial state of the laid off workers depends on their skills, age and degree of determination.
The bleak unemployment picture has sent many laid-off workers looking for internships that might lead to full-time jobs.
The shift from coal is reverberating across Appalachia, where mining companies are laying off workers and cutting production.
The Philadelphia Inquirer'snew private-equity owners found themselves facing a possible strike after they tried to lay off workers.
During the Great Depression of the 1930s firms laid off workers, cut wages and abandoned their welfare programmes.
Tax credits or subsidies could make health insurance affordable for laid-off workers who are not eligible for Medicare.
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