This is a requirement of the WARN (Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification) Act. A WARN notification is required if more than 500 people (or 33% of the “active workforce”) are being laid off.

这是美国《WARN法案（员工调整和再培训通知法案）》A部分的规定：在超过500人（或33%的‘有效员工’）将被裁员时，企业必须发布WARN通知。

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The day after I was laid off from my job, a fellow co-worker emailed me and said, "This is your next assignment... instructions on how to jump out of the pot... But not necessarily the way you did!"

被解雇后的一天，一个同事发邮件给我说，“这是你下一份任务……介绍该如何跳出锅……但是不一定要像你之前做的那样！”

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He is a doctor while his brother is a laid-off worker.

他是一个医生，然而他弟弟是个下岗工人。

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He says it would cost less to help a laid-off worker buy an individual policy that is unconnected to his ex-employer's.

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And a succession of ordinary citizens aired their troubles at the podium: a car worker about to lose his job, a flood victim from Iowa, a laid-off textile worker with huge medical bills, and so on.

ECONOMIST: Barack Obama struggled this week to unite his party

The wife of a laid-off oil-rig worker, who's used to him being away for weeks at a time, can't get a reprieve.

CNN: In Gulf oil disaster, cameras can't capture the human toll