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To: Pam who wrote (42882)1/21/2009 6:12:27 PM
From: Donald Wennerstrom  Respond to of 95530
 
Some companies really have a hard time calling "a spade, a spade".

<<TSMC responded by saying that its annual system to evaluate employee performance is simply being carried out more strictly and should not be viewed as layoffs.>>

If you have a "poor performer" and send that person out the door, but do not replace that person, that is a layoff in anyone's language.