"That means they are less likely to lay off workers." Other glimmers of economic hope appeared Tuesday.

VOA: standard.2009.07.14

The number of newly-laid off workers jumped unexpectedly to 471,000 last week, PNC Financial chief economist Stuart Hoffman says the data point to continued layoffs and weak job creation in the United States.

VOA: standard.2010.05.20

President Richard Nixon gave federal government workers the day off to watch the moon landing on television.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

SUD and other critics claim France Telecom used extremely coercive methods to lay off 22,000 workers between 2006 and 2008.

VOA: standard.2010.04.11

"It is time to stop holding workers laid off in this recession hostage to Washington politics."

VOA: standard.2010.07.19

Much of the company has been privatized in recent years, but many workers are civil servants and it is very difficult to lay them off in France.

VOA: standard.2010.04.11

Now that the civil war in Sri Lanka is over, he says aid workers are finally able to reach some areas in the northern Tamil region that had been off limits.

VOA: standard.2009.12.26

"We cannot build a stable global economy when hundreds of millions of workers and families find themselves on the wrong side of globalization, cut off from markets and out of reach of modern technologies."

VOA: standard.2010.01.06