1.   Enterprises have sacked workers and are running at much less than their full capacity.

2.   Some workers had been sacked for taking part in unofficial strikes.

3.   Another worry is stifling bureaucracy and regulation, especially laws that make it hard to sack workers.

4.   French stocks fell from record highs on concern a corporate tax increase combined with separate measures intended to make it harder for companies to sack workers would crimp profit.

5.   Ghosn hopes to avoid actually sacking workers, which is expensive in Japan.

6.   The telephone company sacked telephone workers after the Labor Ministry declared a six-day strike earlier in the year was illegal, La Republica newspaper said.

7.   But an Airport Authority spokesman declined to say how many workers had been sacked and whether the contractor would be penalised.

8.   Coal and Allied sacked the workers after it introduced a new merit-based system to assess employee performance in some of its Australian operations.

9.   Contractor AEH Joint Venture immediately sacked the workers.

10.   Freight wagon manufacturer Thrall Europa confirmed that four workers had been sacked after they left the factory site in York without permission to watch the game.