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Last month, when the union announced it had negotiated a 12% pay cut in exchange for a promise of no lay-offs, there was applause.

Equally striking has been a wave of lay-offs at much smaller start-up companies, which are bracing themselves for a coming recession.

Fiat says that all but 500 of the total are temporary lay-offs, to last about a year.

Services will have to be cut, as in other cities, to close a budget deficit, and that will probably mean lay-offs.

Thousands of Italian workers in several major cities went on strike Friday, demanding lower taxes and an end to lay-offs, Xinhua reported.

Capital projects are being cut by every operator and, after years of desperately searching for labour, lay-offs have begun.

Enterprises are closed down, in the lay-offs, where new employees will think ah?

Senior officials have shown increasing public concern over the potential for unrest as a result of lay-offs and crumbling growth.

Local schools do not think they will have to resort to lay-offs until the new school year starts.

Yet many managers are under pressure to turn their firms' fortunes round fast. Hence the predilection for swift and sizeable lay-offs.

Lay-offs reached such a scale that they triggered serious unrest.

Lay- offs must be consistent with economic conditions, to comply with statutory procedures and compensation.

There were more lay- offs across the board - including in the construction, real estate, retail and recreation sectors.

Lay offs are a great liberation of productive forces - give yourself a chance to make a fresh choice.

After several rounds of lay-offs, many at AOL are fed up with the old boss, Randy Falco, a former television man, and his deputy, Ron Grant.

And there will be more lay-offs by the many private firms that have come to rely on public-sector largesse.

As in Germany, that process could be slow and rely more on hiring freezes than lay-offs, says Julian Callow at Barclays Capital.

Lay-offs will go up a bit, but most people will keep their jobs.

Industry insiders predict that more than 500 gaming industry professionals will become unemployed due to the year-end lay-offs.

Thus at the start of this decade, when lay-offs peaked, it hugely understated true unemployment.

We're just going to slam the brakes on, use as many temporary lay-offs as needed, cut everything back to essentials.

Lay-offs don't necessarily send people reaching for the beer bottle or digging into the potato-chip bag, explain the authors.

This will upset unions, who recently won an injunction from a federal judge to stop temporary lay-offs.

The December draft allows mass lay-offs but makes these subject to consultations with the union or employee representatives.

Newcastle United trio Michael Owen, Emre and Celestine Babayaro all returned to light training on Thursday following their injury lay-offs.

Shoppers Drug Mart, Canada's biggest pharmacy chain, threatened lay-offs and store closures, and asked customers to sign protest cards.

Current law does not provide a clear legal basis for mass lay-offs except in extreme circumstances.

The rise in unemployment has been temporarily blunted by a government subsidy that helps companies postpone lay-offs.

In Portugal, says Peter Villax, president of the Portuguese Family Business Association, large family firms have eschewed lay-offs.

Some PRI leaders have ties to the oil workers' union. And big lay-offs in the trough of recession would anyway be politically toxic.

Cost-cutting measures include production cuts, employee lay-offs and postponement of certain models.

True, many companies are in good health, having cut costs through lay-offs during the downturn. They are poised to benefit now.

Throughout 2008 Macau also saw waves of lay-offs, as casino developers struggled with a cash squeeze.

Unemployment in America grew faster than expected as lay-offs in the public sector began to bite.

But it won't turn into a big problem since a large percentage of the lay-offs get re-employede soon.

Strict Japanese labour laws make "involuntary" lay-offs unfeasible for all but the frailest companies.

Mr Dimon said there would be no big programme of lay-offs in investment banking.

Mr Prince yesterday declined to comment on forthcoming lay-offs at the US banking giant.

In the past few months big games publishers have announced lay-offs, losses and the cancellation of many titles.

Formally announced in late September, the lay offs reportedly began this week.

But the wave of closures and lay-offs throughout the industry was sobering.

Although losing a job will be a very traumatic experience for many employees, such lay-offs will also be accompanied by opportunities.

A 2008 board game, Kreppuspilid ( "Crisis Game" ), takes players on a journey from boom-time private jets to mass lay-offs and protests.

Bosch, for instance, tightened its belt in the downturn without mass lay-offs.

Domestic demand has been depressed by lay-offs and declining remittances.

This danger justifies efforts to slow lay-offs or encourage hiring.

When a company plans lay-offs it may have a severance plan in effect.

They demurred, leading Mr Emanuel to privatise a handful of services, resulting in as many as625 lay-offs.

Now they have something else in common: this week both announced a further round of mass lay-offs.

Swedish policy to prevent lay-offs due to weak cashflow looks even smarter.

Early retirement also seemed kinder than mass lay-offs.

Rumors may start flying that lay-offs are imminent and jobs are at risk.

It is the second time a boss has been held hostage in France recently over lay-offs. Others have merely been pelted with eggs.

Tao Chunfang &Fan Aiguo, 2001, "Facing Lay- Offs : Survey of Laid-off Workers in Six Cities" , Contemporary China Publishing House: Beijing.

There're many lay-offs among factory workers.

Profit at Credit Suisse also slumped, by half, and it too announced lay-offs.

Long hiring freezes seem likely and some businesses will be forced into lay-offs.

We cut cost through a series of five lay-offs from 500 employees down to 50 people.

For every weak bank the government seeks to sell, they want a guarantee that there will be no lay-offs.

Amid widespread lay-offs and consumer unease, household spending slid 1. 1%.

And companies making big lay-offs could still add new heads in some areas.

Multinationals such as American Express and Motorola have announced lay-offs in India.

"Well, no lay-offs doesn't mean you can't get fired! " he admits.

Third, most of the lay-offs so far in America have been in male-dominated fields, like manufacturing and construction.

"I think Intel had its first significant lay-offs in July of 1974, which was the month I started, " he says.

Option 3 is that the government puts workers on temporary lay-offs or stops payments to suppliers before it defaults on its debts.

But last year was the "worst year ever for law-firm lay-offs" , reckons Law Shucks, a legal-industry blog.

Payments to civil servants will be capped at 12 months of salary when lay-offs are compulsory and at 15 months when they are voluntary.

I mean, every day in the newspaper you read about lay-offs and read about mergers, so you never know.

BA Cuts Flights and Speeds Up Lay-offs