The laid-off workers can apply for new jobs inside Murdoch's massive worldwide media operation.

被解雇员工可以在默多克旗下的传媒集团申请新的工作机会。

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The laid-off workers are provided with necessities of life for a period of time by the companies they have worked with.

下岗工人们的基本生活费用在一段时间内由他们所在的公司提供。

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The company has laid off 150 workers in an effort to save money.

公司为节省资金遣散了150名工作人员。

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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.

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Many of the laid-off workers had taken out loans for their children's college tuition, but they found it impossible to pay back the loans immediately.

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"The growing army of laid-off workers demands an expansion of the private economy, " says Zhong Pengrong, director of the Beijing Prospect Consultancy, an advocate of private enterprise.

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Much of the money made by the state firms is being soaked up by payments for welfare functions, including the wages of laid-off workers.

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