11.   New union contracts guarantee that hourly employees will receive most of their pay even if laid off.

12.   None the less, former project manager Ralph Allen believes he was laid off for speaking up.

13.   Nucor had not laid off a single worker or closed a single plant in fifteen years.

14.   Our cities laid off thousands of employees.

15.   Sales of the directory always increased after the company laid off workers, he said.

16.   Some newly minted salesmen and saleswomen have been laid off from other jobs.

17.   The ambitious young company laid off workers, scaled back projects and went to government regulators seeking financial relief.

18.   The company did not disclose how many employees will be laid off.

19.   The company laid off employees and cut expenses to the bone.

20.   The disenchantment affects all workers, even before they are ever laid off.