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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.
With each laid-off worker receiving eight months' pay plus one week for every year of service, and company-funded retraining to boot, one union observer called it "by far the best severance settlement apparel workers have ever gotten."
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.
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.
--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.