This eliminates the high cost of firing workers without reducing the payout to sacked employees.

ECONOMIST: The OECD softens its line on labour-market reform

It will not come down until the two countries loosen their labour markets' famously stiff joints by cutting minimum wages, making hiring and firing easier, reducing payroll taxes and so on.

ECONOMIST: Jobs

Restructuring is business: getting rid of marginal units, firing unproductive staff and reducing debt.

ECONOMIST: Letters

For the concept of making precinct police captains personally accountable for reducing crime, read the grading of schools and firing of failing principals.

ECONOMIST: School reform

Importantly though, even after taking into account the higher required compensation, he argues that performance based firing policies would be more cost effective than than reducing class sizes.

FORBES: Compensating Teachers for Riskier Jobs

Additional sizable savings will be realized from foregoing aircraft maintenance, reducing ship and aircraft operations, cutting IT spending 25%, and firing hundreds of temporary employees.

FORBES: Washington Budget Wars Poised To Devastate Military Communities

The component inhibits stinging cells from firing by interfering with several stages of their biochemical pathway, from the sensing mechanism through to reducing the pressure in the cells.

BBC: Sting relief for summer swimmers

After taking the reins in March 1997, he quickly forced Novell through a painful restructuring, firing a whopping 1, 000 people (including half of the company veeps), rigorously reducing costs and streamlining inventory.

FORBES: Net gains