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Originally Posted by unkbd
Not Canadian but I thought lay off meant you just arent working and could collect unemployment benefits. Then when the company goes back to work you were called back in to resume business as usual.
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I'm sure that's what the author of the article meant. He should have said "temporarily laid off". If I heard someone say "I got laid off when the plant closed", I would assume it's time for them to look for a new job. I'd always thought of "laid off" as a nice way of saying "fired".