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He also talks about the mismanaged transition from commission-based sales to self-service — the precursor to their infamous laying-off of everyone with skills.
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The charity's managers consider the difficult but inevitable option of laying-off paid staff and start to explore how services can be delivered with fewer paid staff and more volunteers.
Dispelling the myths around job substitution by volunteers 2011
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Before Presidents try to sell us a new war, they should at least tell us the cost, especially when firing one lowly Tomahawk missile means laying-off forty teachers.
Alan Singer: Tomahawks and Teachers Alan Singer 2011
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Before Presidents try to sell us a new war, they should at least tell us the cost, especially when firing one lowly Tomahawk missile means laying-off forty teachers.
Alan Singer: Tomahawks and Teachers Alan Singer 2011
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The government of Puerto Rico has already initiated a financial plan that includes laying-off approximately 30,000 government employees.
Global Voices in English » Puerto Rico: Public News Channel Dismantled 2009
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To avoid laying-off skilled workers, many companies run short-work schemes under which staff work shorter hours.
German Union Agrees to Pay Deal Nina Koeppen 2010
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To avoid laying-off skilled workers, many companies run short-work schemes under which staff work shorter hours.
German Union Agrees to Pay Deal Nina Koeppen 2010
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After all, it offers an easy way to get a big up-front wad of cash without raising taxes, laying-off workers or cutting popular city services.
Celeste Meiffren: In The Public Interest : Learn From Chicago's Mistakes Celeste Meiffren 2010
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The company also makes the space shuttle main engines; and, after laying-off 550 workers in October, Utah-based ATK Space Systems - the company that builds booster rockets for the retiring space shuttle - began laying off another 420 workers in January.
Space: The "New West" Frontier D.A. Barber 2010
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Law enforcement budgets have been cut to the bone across California; many cities are laying-off police officers, firefighters, and prosecutors.
Kamala D. Harris: The Arizona Immigration Law: Politics over Policy 2010
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