The bottom line is that you need to be aware of the possibility of a layoff.
If employees have suffered through the agonizing game of "layoff roulette," furloughs and salary freezes (or cuts), there may be some PTSD in the ranks.
Steven Gerrard has declared himself ready for a return to English Premier League action after ending his six-month injury layoff in Liverpool's 2-1 League Cup third-round victory over Brighton.
Sixty percent of the teachers at the Mariposa-Nabi primary school in Los Angeles have received layoff notices.
I had been out of work (following a layoff) for about five months and this seemed like a great opportunity to move my career forward.
For years, it has happily negotiated contracts with generous salary increases and no-layoff clauses.
With the unemployment rate hitting a new 25-year high Friday, many workers and layoff victims in the worst-suffering industries are looking for safer sectors.
I hate to say it, but learning SQL may mean that you get to keep your job when Ted in the next cube gets canned during layoff season.
In the wake of handing out 3,000 layoff notices Tuesday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sent an E-mail to staff.
I could point at all those layoff I could frighten you by bringing up the spectre of your job going overseas.
'Some [layoff victims] stop reading newspapers because it can get depressing,' he says.
In a mass layoff, 50 or more workers are laid off at a time.
