Most of employers are planning to cut down on wages instead of laying off employees in response to the economic depression.

为了应对经济萧条，大多数雇主正计划降低工资，而不是裁员。

Both industries are laying off workers.

这两个行业现在都在裁员。

Even Microsoft began laying off workers.

甚至微软也开始裁员了。

Its 1950s-era textile mills are laying off workers.

五十年代修建的纺织厂的工人们纷纷下岗。

Qimonda closed the factory earlier this year, laying off 1,500 workers.

奇梦达在年初关闭了这家工厂，解雇1,500名员工。