while you all get fat off layoffs.

When layoffs were necessary, black employees were the first to go.

Rather than resorting to extensive layoffs, firms had their employees work a partial week.

Large systems are privatized without social welfare programmes for labour laid off.

Moreover, many employers, seeking to share the pain of recession and slow down layoffs, are now asking workers to accept cuts in both hours and hourly wages.

But, because these policies increase the cost of fuel and electricity, they imply layoffs elsewhere, across many different economic sectors.

After the boom peaked in 1995, one million construction workers were laid off and could not find jobs elsewhere.

Germany s labor code bars such layoffs, but German employers also are presumably less inclined than US employers to shed workers, because they have invested more in their companies human capital.

Increasing labor market flexibility by reducing the costs of shedding workers will lead in the short run to more layoffs in the public and private sector, exacerbating the fall in incomes and demand.

In general, legislation before 2000 imposed on employers enormous firing costs, while new legislation in both Entities represents a significant improvement.

Sami was discharged from his treatment program.

Sami was waiting for Layla to be discharged from the hospital.

Disarmament and repatriation of foreign armed groups

But making it difficult for firms to lay off workers provides only an illusory benefit for workers, for it compromises companies ability to compete, and weakens their incentive to create jobs.

Of that number, 38,984 have been demobilized.

Overall productivity in the economy is not helped much when firms become more productive by shedding workers, who end up in informal activities characterized by substantially lower productivity.

The first caseload was demobilized from the army and the rebel groups on a voluntary basis, followed by those currently identified within the army.

The Government continued to promote the demobilization of members of illegal armed groups.

The first phase, which ended in September 2004, saw the demobilization of 2,300 children.

These are the most drastic temporary dismissals to take place in Finland since 2000.

May Day, or Labour Day, or International Workers' Day is recognised as a public holiday in many Arab countries, and demonstrations and rallies are held by unions and political parties to pay tribute to the role of workers and to call for workers' rights.

The workers are exhausted.

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With European export orders canceled en masse, Chinese factories are faced with the prospect of massive layoffs.

Early in 1647 the Long Parliament wished either to disband many of the regiments or to send them to Ireland.

Additionally, those who are found to be under 18 at the training stage are discharged from the military.

All had a policy whereby the prisoner could be released, but the period to be served varied considerably.

The process of demobilizing and disarming ex combatants of the Afghan military forces was finalized under Japanese leadership this summer.

Workers according to activities

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(a) Migrant workers

A firm with two workers requires one communication channel, directly between those two workers.

It is important to point out that countries need effective demobilization and reintegration programmes for young people involved in armed conflicts.

Germany s Labor Pains

of All Migrant Workers and

f. Workers and Trade Unions

In late 2004, the demobilization was initiated of approximately 3,000 members of the AUC.

Special emphasis has been put on demobilizing child soldiers within six months of the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement.

Some workers have died from working in the mining quarries, but none have received compensation, according to the workers.

Outworkers have the same right to access social security as all other workers.

The flow of workers out of employment exceeds the flow back into employment.

Essentially, foreign workers suffered from very low levels of unemployment and considered their salaries to be on a par with those of their co workers.

Thirdly and finally, maintaining and enhancing programmes for the demobilization and reintegration of child soldiers are, in our view, of the utmost importance.

In Brčko District, the union was formed on 7 February 2001, under the Agreement with the Federation of Independent Unions of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Federation of Independent Unions of Republika Srpska, of 25 May 2000, as a voluntary interest organization of workers.

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