layoff是什么意思

双语用例

• About half of the layoffs took place in the construction materials and capital goods industries.

• Were these responsible for peculiar labor market phenomena like layoffs and the reluctance of employers to reduce wages?

• With the former, layoffs are likely to consist of predominantly low-quality firm-worker matches, whereas with the latter, both high- and low-quality matches may be involved.

• With the sharp rise in layoffs in the early 1930s the chances of re-employment declined for all the unemployed.

• Older workers are often targeted for layoffs, sometimes with redundancy packages.

• Traditional mechanisms of adjustment (limiting layoffs to non-core sectors, transfer of the lowest value-added sectors overseas) have proved inadequate to the crisis.

• Central to these reforms was the legalization of layoffs for 'managerial reasons'.

• Apart from legalizing layoffs, the labour 'dispatch' system was introduced.