Sentences with phrase «laying off workers»

The failure of Webvan — a $ 1.2 billion company that declared bankruptcy last summer, laying off workers and liquidating its assets — perhaps drew the most media attention.

«Our company dreaded that idea of laying off workers, but could no longer avoid the reality of terminating many of our good workers.

Many companies have already undertaken traditional measures to save cash, like laying off workers and reducing salaries.

Like Homer City, Chief Power is also challenged by higher than expected operating costs and has been laying off some workers and stretching out its maintenance cycle from three years to four years.

Although solar power is seen as a key way to avoid the use of climate - changing fossil fuels, US solar companies are cutting investments and laying off workers.

Green Belt workers cleared acres of thorny brush to plant indigenous trees when the forest service was laying off workers.

How many stories have we heard over the past few years of executives taking huge bonuses even though their company was laying off workers or bailed out by taxpayers?

«Connecticut's casinos are laying off workers.

They are also laying off workers.

«Instead of laying off workers who did nothing to deserve it, the administration should lay off its union busting tactics,» Donohue said.

As Upstate New Yorkers learn more about Wall Street's Matt Doheny and his history of laying off workers while helping executives land millions in bonuses, they'll quickly realize he's the wrong choice this November.»

The budget backlash continues today as several groups representing education, public employees, and low - income New Yorkers bashed Gov. Andrew Cuomo's budget, saying there are other ways to close the state's $ 10 billion gap without laying off workers or cutting from education and health care.

Cuomo says the restructuring board could also provide political cover for local government leaders who need to make unpopular decisions, like laying off workers in order to consolidate services, or reducing the number of city councilmembers or supervisory boards.

At the time, the Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA) lamented that the load shedding exercises their led to some companies laying off their workers.

The end of free parking, which park officials warned about last fall, is part of a plan to make ends meet by laying off workers and enacting fee increases.

Many are now laying off workers.

We're at the bottom of the pack and almost every other week another coal mine or forest product mill is laying off workers, eliminating shifts or closing down altogether.

He cut costs by laying off workers, installing new work rules and stripping employee pension funds.

He promised to cancel the Trans - Pacific Partnership, tear up NAFTA, label China a currency manipulator, and encourage Congress to pass an End the Offshoring Act that «Establishes tariffs to discourage companies from laying off their workers in order to relocate in other countries and ship their products back to the U.S. tax - free.»

Establishes tariffs to discourage companies from laying off their workers in order to relocate in other countries and ship their products back to the U.S. tax - free.

Outside the building, union workers said they wanted to draw attention to GE's cuts to pension and healthcare benefits and to close facilities and lay off workers.

Companies lay off workers, consumers stop spending, and the average American experiences a financial pinch.

But you can't lay off workers, or when the contracts start there is no one to execute.»

Most boards continue to give huge bonuses to execs while they lay off workers.

Layoffs often demolish an employee's social circle and identity — and the same is true for family members of laid off workers.

«If business turns down, he has us lay off workers.

It, like everyone, was hit hard by recession, and did what a lot of companies did: dramatically reduced costs, laid off workers, raised prices, and went back to customers and said, «I'm sorry we can't honor this contract...» The response from Wall Street was, «Wow, you've done a great job managing your costs!»

The nation has pledged to shut down significant portions of excess capacity and lay off workers, but some analysts say the policy response so far has been incoherent.

Even Germany, long the leader in the solar industry and the model for politicians like McGuinty, is seeing major producers lay off workers and its global market share shrink.

Peabody's problems have only expanded so far in 2015: Forecasting greater losses than originally anticipated, the company reduced its dividend, laid off workers and even cut the salaries of its top executives temporarily in a desperate attempt to keep the company afloat.

The economy might be prospering now, but that won't last forever: «The party has to stop sometime, and when it does, employers will lay off workers,» the study says.

Some companies, like Southwest Airlines (LUV), choose on principle not to lay off workers — even during a financial crisis.

European rival Airbus also is automating, and industry experts say it is doing so at a faster pace than Boeing, partly driven by rigid labor laws in Europe that made it difficult to lay off workers in a downturn.

The report highlights an internal letter to laid off workers that said the cuts were intended to «to better align our resources with business requirements.»

Companies that use steel and aluminum in their products say tariffs would raise their costs, eating into profits or forcing them to raise prices or lay off workers.

If it finds a buyer, could lead the rehiring of some of its laid off workers.

Even worse, take another company slightly over the arbitrary threshold — it would be incentivized to actually lay off a worker in order to receive that $ 2,200 benefit.

If it worsens, Europe could face the widespread decline in prices known as deflation, which hurts companies» profits and leads them to lay off workers.

Approximately 34 percent said they anticipate a negative impact on their business, and 16 percent stated that they would be forced to lay off workers and suffer a loss of business.

That will destroy wealth as US companies are forced to lay off workers and shutter factories — leaving America's struggling industrial base ultimately worse off.

We'll see a trickle - down effect if more companies lose their financing, lay off workers, and eventually shut down.

Tariffs would make much - needed foreign materials more expensive, which may force manufacturers to lay off workers or move their facilities to Canada or Mexico.

As a result, some foreign steel and aluminum firms will go bankrupt; others will be forced to lay off workers.

This is a private company the gov is betting that HL will capitulat to save the company and not lay off workers (the what is more moral, Standing on you principals or firing 12K full time employees) this is not about contraception it is about government control of EVERYTHING

It means that industry can sell less, will produce less, and will lay off workers.

He is the unwelcome interloper who fires executives, lays off workers, and sells or closes divisions — regardless of the personal grief that results, the careers that are ruined, the reputations that are swept away.

Heartland has had its workforce install the new equipment instead of having to lay off workers, he adds.

And after you have chosen you preferred cut — laid off that worker, or swapped out a pricier healthier food for something cheaper and maybe not as nutritious — can you truly say that the boycott or the competitive lunch really «forced nutrition services to offer better food»?

I bring this point up because of the integrated nature of the anti-Romney message: the site strongly reinforces the ad with details about Bain Capital's involvement with companies that later laid off workers, via a sliding set of screens similar in presentation to what we saw in the «Life of Julia» infographic.

«We would probably have to lay off workers....