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Bookmark or Share- Laid off vs lay off - WordReference ForumsThe employees (were laid off/ lay off) just before the holiday. Are there chances that both of them are correct and make a real meaningful sentence? To me, the first one, "were laid off", makes a passive voice which means [employees were fired]. (here, "laid off" is the past participle of "to lay off")
- lay off vs. make redundant | WordReference ForumsTo lay off means to terminate the employment of an employee when there is little work to be done. Redundant is superfluous. The employee is too many, no longer needed. He is not necessary because there is no work for him. To sack is to fire. Reasons may be various, I suppose. But, yes, the one and only should add some more explicit context.
- be fired vs. be made redundant | WordReference Forums"Be made redundant" and "to be/get laid off" mean the same to me, except that I think of redundancy as being formal and applying to professionals (so there are legal requirements, advanced notice, possible redundancy pay etc) whereas I hear "laid off" applied more often to people in part-time work/short-term contracts like shop cashiers, people in construction work etc.
- be made redundant / laid off - WordReference ForumsLaid off means there is no more work for you--it's not because of your faults (= BE redundant) A euphemistic verb that is delicate yet unspecific as to reason: let go--I was let go A legal term is terminated. It might sound terrible but it just means the employment was stopped for whatever reason.
- To get sack, to be fired, to be laid off, to be made redundantHelp me to sort these 4 phrases into two columns - which of them are formal and which are informal I assume that to get the sack is informal and a synonym for the formal to be fired f.i. - I gave him the sack = I fired him (?) and to be made redundant is a formal synonym of informal to be...
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