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The gunman reportedly was a 41-year-old man of Asian descent who'd recently been laid off from his job with IBM.

In the current economic downturn, the firm has no doubt already laid off a good number of bright young peo-ple like Ms Clinton.

But workers who worry about being laid off are unlikely to go spend, regardless of how much money fiscal stimulus puts in their pockets.

Criticized for overexpansion, the company has closed hundreds of stores and laid off thousands of employees over the past two years.

If you were laid off in an across-the-board cutback, say so; otherwise, indicate that the move was your decision, the result of your action.

She recently found a job at a real estate company after being laid off in 2008 and is now able to splurge on lunches and dinners out.

Unlike union workers laid off from idled factories, salaried workers have no safety net of health care or guaranteed income for a year.

These workers are hired and laid off during the course of the business cycle just as employees in the United States are.

In her 50s, she, too, was laid off, from her supervisory job of 15 years, and she moved in with her elderly mother.

The work there was seasonal, and there was a great deal of hardship among the employees when they were laid off each winter.

After further conversation, I knew that he had become homeless after getting laid off from his job and dropping out of college .

But then the company got slammed by the global crisis, and she was laid off in January, just a few weeks after her wedding.

And when the security guard got laid off, and it fell on her to dial in the security codes for the parking-lot gates?

Their misery is not as familiar as that of the laid-off workers of imploding corporations, but it is often more tragic.

Half a year after being laid off from the textile mill, she found a way out of her difficulties by opening a day nersery.

A year ago consensus held that China faced feeble growth and social revolt by an army of millions of laid-off workers.

He said the couple had been laid off for economic reasons.

If you want to avoid being laid off, be prepared to state how your contributions will benefit the company.

He was actually laid off from his job because he wouldn't accept a small demotion in title because he felt it was a blow to his dignity.

Jimmy was laid off. But he landed on his feet and found a better job very soon.

He was suddenly overtaken by a fear that he would be laid off by the company , because of the depression .

Less than a fifth of the planned half a million workers are reported to have been laid off by the end of March.

Eg. Jimmy was laid off. But the fell on his feet and found a better job very soon.

With the exception of the famous actors, every person we see fired in the film is not an actor but a real life recently laid off person.

He had laid off his hat and gloves and was now fidgeting with the little toilet pieces which were nearest him.

She was thankful that she kept her job when most of her co-workers were laid off.

Like it said in the news article, if in the unfortunate event that you're laid off, make sure you know what your entitled to first.

Martha's friends all came over to her house to commiserate over being laid off at the company.

The bank laid off 260 employees in Seattle when it moved its call center to India as part of its cost-cutting initiative.

Rhonda benefited from these subsidies after she was laid off from her job.

He is often absent from work, so he is laid off by the firm.

But under collective agreements, workers laid off by new private owners would have to be taken back on to the public payroll.

Ms. Marshall was found to have breast cancer; her husband was laid off; her mother died and her father followed.

Families were to receive assistance when working father died. People laid off from work were to be helped until they found new jobs.

Maybe being laid off was a blessing in disguise. Maybe, it is time for you to conquer your fears and go for broke.

If a recession is beginning and employees have to be laid off, a dedicated workforce might be a weakness.

Mr Wen said the government was also extremely concerned about migrant workers who had been laid off in the cities.

A laid-off father of two says, "Unless we win this, we could be the next for SALE sign on this block. "

The main aim of re-socialization is to-help the laid-off workers renew their ideas, improve their abilities, change their social roles.

Later we found that the world is fair, also laid-off girlfriend, because hot-tempered quarrel with the managers, sad heart for a while.

Matthew is in a tight sport financially after he was laid off by his company.

With a laid-off father who likes drinking and often scolds him without reason, he says he hardly feels emotionally attached to his father.

"Watching my friends' careers go up in smoke and watching tons of people getting laid off gave me the strength, " she said.

"It's obviously very easy at the point of being laid off to really come from a position of fear and desperation, " she says.

As the two firms' investment banks were crunched together, over a third of those units' employees were either laid off or left for rivals.

Vigorously develop the company, while positive social return, the company recruitment of staff for the majority of laid-off staff.

Mitch: She was a graphic designer, but due to a budget crunch, she was laid off.

Before I was laid off, I thought of divorcing my wife. But having more time with her and our children at home made me think twice.

"I used to have adoctor, " she said, matter-of-factly, "but when I got laid off six months ago Ilost my insurance. "

To address enterprise employment "trouble" and the laid-off workers find re-issues, the company has formally launched dispatching business.

Mr DuPree boasted that after Katrina he never raised taxes, cut services or laid off workers.

The company appears to be under pressure financially - in October '08, Imeem laid off 25% of its staff.

The reason why he was laid off was that he had been irresponsible for the job.

With one of my parents being laid-off, my family can't possibly afford all my expenses at college.

He was laid off in 2009 from his longtime job as a retailing executive, and she quit her teaching job amid looming school-budget cuts.

To let them, dispossessed laid-off factory-workers, back to the firms can help to avoid social turmoil effectively.

We're happy with the security of his employment. He's not going to be laid off here.

"I've always been frugal , but it was when I was laid off in the dot-com crash that I became extreme, " Hashimoto explained.

Sometimes you get laid off and feel a sense of freedom, possibility, and vitality that you haven't felt in years.

The Vice President was introduced by Wendy Howard, a mother of three, who joined Ener1 after being laid off from her previous job.

As long as the government and individuals strive hard, there will certainly be a way out for the laid-off workers.

Bartz said that some Yahoo employees will eventually move over to Microsoft and that some search personnel would be laid off.

The Indonesian owners have offered a deal: more bonuses, longer contracts and a reinstatement of half of those laid off.

Steve, laid off from his discount-store job the week before, would also be home.

First of all, Mr. Dawson laid off one of his assistants because he was a hidden spy.

Husband laid off, and his wife tried every means to the family balance of payments.

He just laid off the last of his 15 employees, he says, because he feared for their safety after they received anonymous telephone threats.

Right now the individual sees a 10 percent unemployment rate and fears he may be the next to be laid off.

Although our society is one that focuses on fashionable people, we should not ignore such a group as the laid-off workers.

Open up the business pages any day of the week and you'll see news of shops liquidating , workers getting laid off, retailers bleeding cash.

King in the early Ming, Liang Kou division three tests that were laid off benefits of light into the city prefect to Yin Xing-off.

Getting laid off a few years ago taught me the hard lesson that I can't let others think for me - I need to think for myself.

Chambers laid off thousands of employees, shrank the number of suppliers, and simplified or jettisoned many products.

Being laid-off from that job turned out to be a blessing in disguise.

Students include a former U. S. Army helicopter pilot, an administrative assistant, a former steel worker and a laid-off Boeing contractor.

Gradually, employees were laid off, and the company closed its factory "to preserve capital, " Mr. Williams said.

Roz O'Hearn said the company doesn't know how many will be temporarily laid off, but it could be as many as 250.

For 10 years she worked for a health-care company, but she was laid off in January.

Many intercity bus services have been canceled and the drivers laid off, and the remaining buses are less than half full, Mr. Fu said.

"Pay cut, less medical benefits, loss of my vacation and loss of my severance package when I get laid off here, " he said.

Agency Employee: That depends. Your benefits are calculated based on your quarterly earnings. You were laid off from your job?

My husband called my cell phone to tell me he got laid off from his construction job.

That has inevitably led to a large number of workers being laid off from overstaffed enterprises.

Last month, it recalled 16 plant workers who had been laid off due to a pickup in volume on its tape-measure product line.

Mr Ouyang played down the company's problems, saying "not a lot of employees were laid off" .

Yang was a law professor at Beijing's China Youth University for Political Sciences before he was laid off.

After being laid off and losing his house, he was really screwed up by his emotional problems.

Although white-collar workers are more likely to be laid off nowadays, they are also likely to get rehired .

Obama administration is still pushing to advance an extension of unemployment benefits for laid-off workers now frozen in the Senate.

About half of those laid off were teachers, says John Deasy, the head of the Los Angeles Unified School District.

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Also, a number of women who have been at home, or working part-time, are returning to work when husbands or partners get laid off.

When employees are laid off, they are usually given a package to ease the pain of being severed from the company.

Our society is thriving and prospering, but the laid-off workers have not the light of hope.

The laid-off workers used to send money back to their home villages, adding to the paltry income of families left behind on the farms.

Especially the students whose parents are farmers or laid-off workers are more worried about this.

Laid-off workers in factories in southern China have staged protests that had to be contained by riot police.

Nick is among those to be laid off as he is considered over the hill by management.

Laid-off women in the street before a bookstall, business in general. Dead man in a business to work, wages were low.

Among the survivors, advertising is dwindling, editorial is thinning and journalists are being laid off.

painful choices had to be made : programs were ended and 60 staff members ? nearly half the total of 130 ? were laid off.

Hundreds of Shenyang's factories were closed, from foundries to farm-equipment manufacturers, and thousands of workers laid off.

In a drive for efficiency, they slashed branch numbers and laid off hundreds of thousands of employees.

A founder of one of the websites revealed single moms who got laid off would go to a clinic, "giving plasma and getting their $25 a time. "

The package also includes temporary subsidies to help pay for laid-off workers' health insurance.

The group begun shrinking in 2009 when Berkeley laid off several staff, he said.

Many Americans are unable to tap any form of credit, fear they will be laid off from their jobs and are hunkering down, paying off debt.

side effects can be eliminated is the reduction of classes in schools and teachers have been laid off crisis.

Manufacturing is starting to feel the heat but only 25, 000 workers have been laid off since November.

In response to falling demand, the big manufacturers here have cut production and laid off thousands of employees.

Having made that decision, I was immediately tested. One week after I gave notice, my husband was laid off from his job.

Intel's sales were down and 3% of the staff at the factories had been laid off.

Most of the supplier companies are also labour-intensive ones, and the end of contracts mean large number of workers will be laid-off.

With more workers likely to be laid off as production is cut, consumer demand could drop further.

Furthermore, from the angle of social economic behavior, the miserable group is still the laid-off workers.

New leadership was brought in, and thousands of workers were laid off.

If she's about to get laid off and her higher-ups have no idea what you do, you'll be vulnerable too.

Keller started the Chico, California-based business in 2005 after being laid off from his job in software sales.

Mr. Jia films the kind of people he grew up around- petty thieves , laid-off workers, aimless youths .

Mr. Jeong said most of the new recruits were laid-off office workers or university students who could no longer afford tuition.

then he grabbed his coat , which he had laid off to work , picked up his gloves , and started out.

She could spend years specializing in a certain area only to be laid off.

In contrast to its big rivals, which are hiring, AOL laid off 7% of its workforce this month.

They were never laid off, never short of cash at month's end, never lined up for welfare.

In a bid to cut costs, MySpace also has laid off more than 400 workers, or 30 percent of its staff, in the United States.

"Fear? Me? No, absolutely not, " she said. "I mean, I'm sorry so many people are getting laid off, but my job is safe as houses. "

'I'll be able to pay some bills, ' said Burke, a laid-off graphic designer.

If you suddenly get laid off, you should have at least three to six months of living expenses set aside.

AAbout half of those laid off were teachers, says John Deasy, the head of the Los Angeles Unified School District.

Find out about the employment related benefits that you may be eligible for when you resign, get fired, or get laid-off from your job.

Third, the number of laid-off and unemployed workers keeps going up, causing tremendous pressure on the social security system.

Within the last week, dozens of Universal Music Group employees were laid off.

Sixthly, the payment of basic living expenses and pension and health insurance of laid- off staff is to be guaranteed.

"When you are laid off it is very disorienting. It was a real shock to my system, " said 43-year-old Skidmore, of Overland Park, Kansas.

They also provide job guidance and organize reemployment training programs to help laid-off personnel find new jobs.

Some of his clients are adult children who were laid off and can't find new jobs.

Both the laid-off workers and the migrant workers are in the same starting line. Both have to make a living by themselves.

Competition for jobs is heating up as an increasing number of skilled professionals, laid off from their companies, flood the market.

At the same time, the enthusiasm with which US managers laid off workers is also extraordinary.

It would also promote spending directly and indirectly through money spent by teachers and workers who would otherwise be laid off.

You didn't ask for it, but being laid off offers you an opportunity to figure out what you're really passionate about.

When the part-time paramedic got laid off again in 2008, he decided to pursue what he really loved: health care.

He is a skilled worker laid off from his job in a Belfast shipyard.

The work is repetitive, and the workers are regarded as a variable cost to be taken on or laid off as demand dictates.

GM is now hiring back some laid-off workers to keep up with growing demand for stylish, high-quality new cars.

And walk in the street laid-off sets, command vehicle traffic running back and forth, in traffic shuttle deal with emergencies.

The only thing more depressing than being laid off is being laid off when you're an "older" worker.

US employers laid off workers for a fourth consecutive month in April as businesses reined in spending.

When a worker is laid off and loses his income, society must ensure that he receives a monthly allowance and medical insurance.

The national prohibition against logging laid off the workers living on the forest railway.

In addition, laid-off people with low incomes and aged features are more inclined to be pessimistic in consumption.

Many of the women who've been laid off have decided to take matters into their own hands and become business owners.

And with the concern about people being laid off today, we have the world's greatest job-creation machine.

Meanwhile, about 600 agents stationed in the subways have been laid off as a result of the budget.

After being laid off , because she couldn't stand domestic cold violence , she decided to get divorced .

He was called into a small office in 2002 after a night shift, laid off and then escorted from the plant.

If you were let go or laid off from your last position, be honest about the circumstances if asked.

Employment problems mainly arise in four areas: laid-off workers, unemployed workers, rural surplus labor and the new growth of the labor.

The financial crisis has plunged European countries into major recessions and many workers have been laid off.

Many laid-off Census workers have nowhere to go but the unemployment line, since a slowing private sector cannot absorb them.

When you got laid off, you were in the same boat as many others.

You might be newly laid off, retired, or a student, homemaker , or entrepreneur who has to make do with less.

The government is trying to solve the problem of laid-off workers.

As companies' hiring freezes start to thaw, many laid-off individuals may see a chance to regain a position in their old companies.

That's why many mediocre employees survive violent corporate upheavals while people of great talent are being laid off.

She switched from being a full-time homemaker to a full-time businesswoman when her husband was laid off previously.

Tens of millions of skilled but mid-aged workers have been laid off from state enterprises, but remain unemployed.

More people were laid off by more firms than had been reported for all previous years combined.

One week after I gave notice, my husband was laid off from his job.

Instead of waiting until you're laid off and filing a complaint, it may be better to protect yourself sooner, says McCann.

Some DoubleClick employees were being laid off Wednesday, while others were being offered transitional roles, Google said.

Laid-off Danes who have worked 52 weeks over the previous 3 years are eligible to receive 90% of their average earnings for up to 4 years.

However, there're many state-owned enterprises and laid off workers, they're willing to sacrifice their time to save money.

I just heard that fifty people are going to be laid off next month.

I just heard that seven people are going to be laid off next month.

As business is bad, the company laid off twenty workers.

It's important to assure the management that you harbor no bad feelings about being laid off and are eager to return to work.

The company laid off 250 workers about a month after the terrorist attacks, driving its head count down to 900.

He and his partner laid off four workers, asked the remaining ones to work overtime and froze wages.

In western Pennsylvania, Allegheny County has promised all laid-off workers free tuition at the community college.

Organizations concerned about easing their employees' shock and stress at being laid off can do so through careful planning and preparation.

For Richard Crane, the 'new normal' in the labor market began when he was laid off from a New Jersey battery plant in the summer of 2006.

There are plenty of people who get laid-off from their 9 to 5 day job and end up making millions in a few short years of self-employment.

Because housing problems of low-income families and relationships, and laid-off workers, and three non-farmers also have relations.

The company laid off 30% of its work force and expects sales to fall by 20% to 30% next year.

The Labor Department reports the number of newly laid off workers seeking unemployment benefits fell for the third consecutive week.

He just went nuts (with madness) when they told him he was laid off.

But now, all the shuttles are in museums and the Johnson Space Center has laid off hundreds of highly skilled technicians.

What? I can't afford to be laid off now.

A former card dealer, she was laid off six months ago by Las Vegas's Poker Palace casino.

He decided to_ _a reemployment center _ the laid off work could get free training.

But it is terrible to get laid off and hear nothing at all afterwards from former co-workers.

Right now, hundreds of thousands of teachers and firefighters and police officers have been laid off because of state budget cuts.

The management measures of staffs' post-waiting and laid-off are not directly linked with the criticisms from the passengers.

Companies have slashed production, postponed investment and laid off workers in their millions.

It was unclear last night whether laid-off workers were responsible for the attacks.

In a mass layoff, 50 or more workers are laid off at a time.

The 54-year-old, who was laid off recently, was also given five bags of rice, edible oil and fish by the civil affairs department.

wife: it's not my fault. you know the company has laid off 70% women in our factory. what could i do?

She was laid off in late 2008, when the global financial crisis temporarily crippled Chinese exports to the West.

Safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of laid-off and retired personnel, and maintain social stability.

The chaebols slashed investment and laid off thousands of workers.

My company has already laid off 20% of its workforce, and now the management is talking about cutting salaries .

And 76% of employees have thoughts of being laid off when suddenly encountering something as benign as a boss's closed door.

Some laid-off Microsoft workers are getting, are being told to give back part of their severance pay.

Workers will be laid off because factory closing, and reduction in household income can reduced they buy their needed commodities .

Many are experiencing stress from the global financial turmoil, like pay cuts, difficulty finding jobs or even being laid off.

There's no need to even point out the fact that you've been laid off.

Seattle , Washington , was a case in point when the aerospace industry laid off people .

And laid-off teachers are only part of the story. Even more important is the way that we're shutting off opportunities.

The re-employment service center also pays old-age, medical and unemployment insurance premiums for laid-off people.

In reality, the isolation requirement may be laid off to achieve better performance.

Since you're your own boss, you don't have to worry about getting written up, laid off, or fired.

Especially prepare who you will respond to "why you were laid off? "

Getting laid-off can happen to the best of us also.

Another factor is that most welfare claimants are women, whereas most of those laid off in the past two years have been men.

Your company was recently acquired , and you spent two weeks worrying that you'd be laid off . After that you worried that you wouldn't be.

The firm laid off about 7% of its employees in 2009 and is studying another round of layoffs that could be announced as soon as next month.

The questioner kept pushing him, saying she'd had friends who had been laid off, who couldn't make their mortgage and car payments.

Harvard will also institute a 30-day external hiring freeze for staff jobs to try to match employees who are laid off with current openings.

While anyone who has been laid off or has worked from home knows the daily struggle with inertia, procrastination, and time organization.

More than 96 percent of the laid-off workers who entered re-employment centers have received their basic living allowance.

number of laid-off workers, re-employment has become a major concern to the whole project.

Once they are full-time, employees who are laid off must be bought out at a multiple of their average monthly salary.

They are likely to return to familiar rates of growth per worker, though not all laid-off workers will benefit from the upturn.

A policy vigorously promoted by the government to help laid off workers be re-employed.

Shi, whose cancer is linked to hepatitis B virus infection, was laid off a few years ago.

Hundreds of contractors have been laid off at several research centres run by Nasa.

My manager told me that I was laid off.

The number of newly laid-off U. S. workers rose last week, the latest sign that the economic downturn is affecting the job market.

There are lots of very skilled people that have been and will be laid off or asked to take unacceptable cuts in pay.

Now that our society is so thriving and prosperous, we surely thank the laid-off workers for their contribution and sacrifice.

Boozell took a chance on me after I was laid off from my first gig.

The feelings caused by being laid off are largely the same regardless of your circumstances.

I work with an international bank, but have recently been laid off.

Helping laid- off workers finding new jobs is a primary task for governments at various levels this year.

The scariest thing about Zara, though, was meeting co-workers who'd been laid off from senior design positions.

With new jobs hard to find, laid- off workers are increasingly filing suits against previous employers.

This new measure is effective not only in providing job opportunities for the laid-off workers, but in limiting price increases.

Do What You Know: Have you been laid off or want a change?

The new stadiums heralded a construction boom, but many of the workers who built them have already been laid off and are without work.

When I was laid off from Intel Corporation in New York almost two years ago, I felt tremendous rejection.

In the past, few laid-off workers in Beijing desired to work as home helpers, jobs largely taken by young women from the countryside.

the city workers were laid off and could not buy farm products, and the depression spread in ever-widening vicious circles.

Scott Berger, a 35-year-old investment analyst, stopped shaving in October after being laid off from hedge fund Laurus Capital Management.

Many of the new jobless are civil servants, including health workers and teachers, laid off by regional governments.

fewer people are paying unemployment insurance as more workers laid off need to get their unemployment insurance money.

Mary went through a difficult time after being laid off.

The upturn is forcing banks that laid off staff in their thousands only months ago to begin rehiring.

"My husband, a carpenter, was laid off, " says Ms. Braga, a fashion aficionado and former talk-show host.