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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In the event of a takeover, ESOP employees are one-third as likely to be laid off, Rosen says.
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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Mr. Rasmussen said unless it reduces costs, as many as 50 employees would have to be laid off by the end of next year.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
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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Those who provided labour for the housing boom in America (notably Latinos), Ireland (Poles) and China (rural Chinese going to cities on the eastern seaboard) have been among the first to be laid off.
When government wages are below those of the private market place, it attracts mainly individuals with below average abilities, the very people who in an economic downturn will be the first to be laid off.
Again, the recipient reports that I think are online cover a portion of the Recovery Act, but we've seen hundreds of thousands of teachers that, as a result of pretty drastic cutbacks in state and local government funding, would have required teachers to be laid off.
So, Micheline, what does it mean to be fired or laid off under the UAW contract?
The key to that should be a recent deal over payments to laid-off workers.
Another said up to 200 staff are expected to be told they have been laid off, while a different worker said 180.
According to a recently laid-off Austin employee, who declined to be named, Zynga notified some workers that their services were no longer needed on Tuesday afternoon and that they would have under two hours to pack up and vacate the offices.
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There is not a single person in here who, had it not been for what was in the stimulus package, wouldn't be going home to more teachers laid off, more firefighters laid off, more cops laid off.
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And yes, 23, 000 state workers will be trying to figure out how to care for their families without a paycheck for the duration along with an estimated 5, 000 to 10, 000 construction workers who will be laid off as the state shuts down dozens of road and highway projects.
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General Dynamics NASSCO, a major ship design, construction and repair company, mailed warn letters to about 1, 040 employees in San Diego, Norfolk and Mayport, informing them that they could be indefinitely laid off in April -- at the end of April through the summer, due to the possible cancellation or delay of maintenance and repair work and uncertainty created by sequestration.
If the employer hires people back, the "laid-off" reservists may be entitled to a job when they return.
It means that laid-off workers might not be able to count on temporary assistance or training to help them get a new job.
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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.
Then again, if you're willing to hand big bucks to someone you don't know for a product you have not even laid eyes on, getting ripped off would appear to be the least of your problems.
Almost all of my peers are always nervous about the prospect of getting laid off or fired if they are lucky enough to be employed at all!
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