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This alleged "societal dynamic" becomes her methodological justification for using the stories of the "underemployed, contracted-out, and laid-off men of Southern California to illuminate more general male losses.
--The employer entity recognizes a liability and an expense for Federal employees who are laid-off or injured on the job and are entitled under law to unemployment benefits or workers compensation, respectively.
A dim laid-off security guard, played by John Travolta, takes hostages at the American Museum of Natural History, while an opportunistic reporter, played by Dustin Hoffman, eggs him on.
Many workers injured by trade are likely to be employed by small, non-unionized companies and either unaware of the trade benefits, which unions actively peddle to their laid-off members, or in service jobs that are not covered.
Insult was added to injury when Todd Purdum in the Sunday New York Times took out after us for our lack of excitement, resuscitating the "laid-back" stereotype that I thought had been shipped off to Seattle a decade or so ago, along with our laid-off aerospace workers.