| It was the economic downturn, everyone was being retrenched and many people needed jobs. |
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| Last year 15,000 jobs were lost in the high tech sector as global firms retrenched. |
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| He says downshifting is not about the seachangers, because it does not include retirees or those who have been retrenched. |
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| At the same time, the Inuit Art Foundation closed its art boutique in downtown Ottawa and retrenched its activities and sales in suburban Nepean. |
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| But if a person is retrenched in one garment factory, we will offer him or her to another garment factory. |
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| Taking on a mortgage and a child when the remaining breadwinner is likely to be retrenched at any moment is a large risk. |
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| He said in an interview from Chisamba that three top management staff had also been retrenched. |
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| The government has taken adequate care to protect the labour interests stipulating attractive compensation package when retrenched. |
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| What will we do when the plastic bag extruding company closes down and all their employees are retrenched? |
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| It emerged this week that the miners who were retrenched earlier this year are yet to be paid their packages. |
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| Consumers retrenched, cutting back on spending and saving huge sums to protect themselves. |
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| Many employees are retrenched or retired with little or no preparation about life after leaving employment. |
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| Unfortunately they closed it after 2 years and retrenched me as a cost-cutting exercise. |
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| Sadly, when the manufacturing operations ceased, local workers had to be retrenched. |
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| About 300 employees were retrenched when the companies were placed in provisional liquidation. |
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| The agreement allowed the company to dismiss its entire South Coast underground workforce and re-hire the retrenched workers as casual or contract labour. |
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| Corporate profits have risen sharply as businesses cut costs and massively retrenched in terms of employment, inventories and capital spending. |
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| Surviving banks, rather than expanding their deposits and loans to replace those of the banks lost to panics, retrenched sharply. |
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| Demand for loans from creditworthy borrowers has held up even as banks have retrenched in the face of mounting regulation. |
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| Export declines have set new records each month since November, as U. S. and European consumers have retrenched. |
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| Rather than innovating toward an environmentally and financially sustainable model, industry has retrenched, cutting production and jobs. |
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| Both consumers and businesses retrenched, which, combined with a sharp pull-back in trade flows, caused a serious decline in output. |
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| Six years ago, her father, a welder, joined the thousands of other retrenched mine workers. |
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| Swazi Paper Mills closed with a loss of 223 jobs and another, Peak Timbers, retrenched half of its 170-workforce at its Piggs Peak plantation. |
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| Not to be harsh to the retrenched worker, the reform process provides for safety nets and reskilling of the workers so that they can take up other activities. |
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| As if council health inspectors have been retrenched, vendors are allowed to sell uncovered food stuffs, the real breeding grounds for many diseases, not only cholera. |
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| The downsizing of the public sector and privatization of State-owned enterprises are contributory factors, as retrenched public sector employees have often turned to the informal economy for a living. |
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| In the current stage of the retrenched Mission and reduced staffing, the priority is utilization of national capacities, resulting in the abolishment of some international posts and retention of national posts. |
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| Management may be terminated and changed, the equity of shareholders may be reduced to nothing, employees may be retrenched and the source of a market for suppliers may disappear. |
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| Some of these employees may be taken over by the new private owners of the factories as part of the acquisition plan, but most of them will have to be formally retrenched. |
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| Job protection and in particular prior notification of redundancy should not be seen as rigidity but as offering a possibility to prepare retrenched workers to find a productive job elsewhere. |
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| The number of competing operators' in each national market has remained more or less stable, although a number of operators have retrenched in their home markets. |
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| For example, Barclays Bank, which had earlier retrenched its branch network in Zambia, has changed its business strategy, and is now in the process of adding to its network, including through mobile banking operations. |
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| Hospitals retrenched in the '30s while the general practitioners retroceded into a bygone era. |
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