The company said it was using the program to avoid layoffs while reducing its work force.

Despite such actions, the board did not completely avoid layoffs.

"The main goal of a union is to make sure we avoid layoffs."

He said that the Giuliani administration "did everything we could to avoid layoffs" in the hospitals.

"But sincerely, I don't believe that we're going to be able to avoid layoffs."

She added that it would be a way to avoid layoffs of teachers.

The district trimmed spending and did all it could to avoid layoffs.

To reduce expenses or avoid layoffs, some companies have told their employees to take a cut in salary.

"We must first attack the waste to avoid service cuts and unnecessary layoffs."

The result, they said, was that an effort to try to avoid layoffs ended up hurting the paper.