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Answer for the clue "Recessionary ill ", 6 letters:
layoff

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n. the act of laying off an employee or a work force

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Layoff (in British and American English) or Retrenchment in South African English , is the temporary suspension or permanent termination of employment of an employee or (more commonly) a group of employees (collective layoff) for business reasons, such ...

Usage examples of layoff.

Roth held on without the Archdiocesan billings for seventeen months, though the layoffs began almost immediately.

Every one of them began practicing, to work out the kinks incurred during this latest layoff, and to experiment with new tricks and turns.

It listed closings and layoffs: a felt-skirt factory, a picture-frame factory, a glass-cutting establishment, a steelworks factory.

In the economic environment of the 1930s, layoffs and closures were quite common, and most employees were just thankful to be personally spared.

The board, without any prodding from anybody, had already declared that there would no longer be any seasonal layoffs, even in such a seasonal industry, and that there would be vacations with pay, and that medical care for workers and their dependents would be free, and that there would be sick pay and a retirement plan, and that the ultimate goal of the company was that, through a stock-bonus plan, it become the property of the workers.

SGI posted a loss of over $50 million, a major layoff was announced, and the longtime chief executive officer resigned.

The newspapers were full of stories of worker layoffs and farm foreclosures and bank failures, just as they are today.

He had actually broached the subject of layoffs, and in doing so provoked a nasty response from his boss.

The layoffs were the biggest disaster in the quiet history of Reedsburg.

With no current revenues, and none expected, immediate layoffs were unavoidable.

All over the country there were shutdowns and layoffs, but not in my father’s factories.

He said he would make every attempt to keep factories running but may soon be under the necessity, of either layoffs or part hours and wages.

Randy started out life like them, living off the Ford Plant like rats living off a garbage dump, but now Randy dressed better than a politician and had no fear of layoffs or the Service Department.

Years ago during one of his layoffs, there had been rumors of a foreman beaten up in an alley.

Shiro was a fifteen-year-old project that was due to expire soon, so more layoffs and terminations were coming.