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Noun Concept
Categories: Unemployment, Employment compensation, Reports of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Labour law, Offshoring
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layoff  furlough
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The act of laying off an employee or a work force WordNet 3.0
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The act of laying off an employee or a work force WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
A layoff or downsizing is the temporary suspension or permanent termination of employment of an employee or, more commonly, a group of employees for business reasons, such as personnel management or downsizing an organization. Wikipedia
The temporary suspension of workers from work Wikipedia Disambiguation
termination of employment of an employee Wikidata
A dismissal of employees from their jobs because of tightened budgetary constraints or work shortage (not due to poor performance or misconduct). Wiktionary
Dismissal of employees. Wiktionary (translation)
IS A
closure
dismissal
HAS KIND
Redundancy in English law
COUNTRY
Spain
DERIVATION
furlough
DIFFERENT FROM
degrowth
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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layoff
Wikipedia
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layoff
Wikidata
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furlough, layoff
Wiktionary
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layoff
Wikipedia Redirections
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force shaping, laid-off, laid off, lay-off, laying off, layoffs, made redundant, Personnel downsizing, reduction in force, redundancy pay, redundancy payment, redundancy payments, retrenchment (labour), right sizing, Rightsize, rightsizing, Temporary layoff, work furlough, workforce reduction
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