| Management officials disciplined all of them with punishments ranging from a one-week layoff to discharge. |
| It will be interesting to see how Greer, traditionally a slow starter, responds to the long layoff. |
| Each of us may well be one paycheque or more away from poverty because all it takes to be in that situation is a firing or layoff. |
| I recently asked a skilled worker, who enjoys a fairly comfortable standard of living, how he would be affected by a prolonged layoff. |
| This pattern of mistrust is repeated in company after company as years of loyalty are rewarded with layoff notices and rejiggered pension plans. |
| A mother bemoaned the layoff of the untenured special ed teacher who had taught her autistic child. |
