1.   Factories are laying off workers.

2.   Factories have been laying off workers.

3.   Some factories have laid off workers because components they need have not been delivered.

4.   Some factories have laid off workers because they have not been able to get components.

5.   Unemployment worsened when the remaining factories laid workers off as orders dwindled.

6.   But state-owned factories are laying off millions of redundant workers, leaving many Chinese reluctant to spend out of fear they might lose their jobs.

7.   Factories laid off hundreds of thousands of workers.

8.   Factories have laid off thousands, small businesses have closed and the government has continued to slash its budget, partly because of falling tax revenues.

9.   He claimed the factory had not laid off any workers.

10.   Protests have been reported from many cities as restructuring state-run factories lay off workers and sometimes withhold or cut monthly payments.