When the economy went south, the first to be laid off were the highest paid programmers.
Moreover, the vast majority of Americans today don't expect to be laid off anytime soon.
Mr. Leon was the only social-studies teacher to be laid off at Arts High.
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News International said Thursday that some of the paper's 200 staff members may be laid off.
American workers who can so easily be laid off may not be hired back as quickly.
In the event of a takeover, ESOP employees are one-third as likely to be laid off, Rosen says.
In November, BioTransplant warned all its employees that they may be laid off.
He bounced from one temporary job to another at gas stations, auto-body shops, even Walmart always the first to be laid off.
More than 1, 200 shuttle workers are to be laid off on Friday.
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Lorenz won't know until February 24 if she'll be laid off, but, she says, she won't let the possibility get her down.
Mr. Rasmussen said unless it reduces costs, as many as 50 employees would have to be laid off by the end of next year.
You're talking to people there in Detroit and talking to auto workers, many of whom have heard that they might be laid off pretty soon.
Some schools could lose half their teachers because of a policy that requires the last teachers hired to be laid off first, regardless of merit.
So BAE has sent out letters to 3, 500 workers, here and in the states of Florida, Hawaii and California, warning them they could be laid off.
Cuts in the education budget will probably shorten the school year by a week, require teachers to be laid off and cause classes to get bigger.
If the sequester is allowed to go forward, thousands of Americans who work in fields like national security, education or clean energy are likely to be laid off.
Under the plan hundreds of teachers will be laid off, and many more will end up working at charter schools where their pay and benefits will be scaled back.
They could be passing bills tomorrow that would ensure that teachers would not be laid off, and that teachers that have been laid off would return to the classroom.
The government says they are men who were recruited into the army when Mr Guei was president, but were about to be laid off, and did not want to be.
On Thursday, 490 temporary employees were told they would be laid off at the end of January, while last month 270 temporary employees were informed their contracts were not being renewed.
Once these cuts take effect, thousands of teachers and educators will be laid off, and tens of thousands of parents will have to scramble to find child care for their kids.
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In 2011, city officials tried unsuccessfully to convince the state to change a "last-in-first-out" rule that dictates newer teachers must be laid off before those with more time on the job.
And he expressed sympathy for the Nokia employees who would be laid off in the wake of the changes while also declining to reveal exactly how many staffers would be affected.
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"The number of workers likely to be laid off as a result of the sequester is basically imaginary although there will almost certainly be a slight surge in unemployment, " Baker said.
Thousands of teachers and educators will be laid off.
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Economists at RBS said the latter reading, the lowest since early April, was encouraging even if a chunk of the decline can be laid off on post-Hurricane Irene effects and seasonal factors.
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This would thereby leave fewer less capable workers competing in the more demanding private sector, where they will inevitably be laid off more frequently, requiring repeated government support payments during their working lifetime.
Talk to the single teacher raising two kids who was told by her principal in the last week of school that because of the Recovery Act, she wouldn't be laid off after all.
And it is I think just a fact that if you're at the receiving end of a notice that you're going to be furloughed or you're going to be laid off, that's nothing small.
Calm may now be returning, with many mining companies agreeing to higher wage demands, but in the longer term, more miners are likely to be laid off, says the BBC's Andrew Harding in Johannesburg.
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