Differences between dismissals, furloughs, and layoffs
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This article outlines the basic differences between dismissals (sometimes known as firings), furloughs, and layoffs (sometimes known as job cuts).
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Basic overview
| Dismissals | Furloughs | Layoffs | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Possibly related to employee's performance |  Yes
|
 No
|
No
|
| Possibly related to employer's needs or economic downturn | Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| May be reversed as situation changes - allowing worker to return to job | No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| May include a severance package | Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| May include partial pay or hours | No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Generally includes benefits | No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Generally qualifies for unemployment benefits in the United States | Yes
|
Yes[note 1]
|
Yes
|
Notes
- ↑ If receiving partial hours or pay, amount received from insurance may be reduced by amount received from employer.
References
- ↑ Congress, Senate., United States, Committee on Foreign Relations (1953). "Mutual Security Act of 1953: Hearings Before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, Eighty-third Congress, First Session, on a Bill to Amend the Mutual Security Act of 1951, and for Other Purposes ...". Economic assistance, American. U.S. Government Printing Office, 1953: 470.
- ↑ Fired vs. Laid Off Connotations Archived February 19, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "Supreme Court Confirms Doctrine of At-Will Employment". Meyers Nave. Retrieved June 21, 2018.
- ↑ "Employee Furloughs Can Be a Bad Alternative to Layoffs". ERE.net. February 9, 2009. Retrieved October 8, 2013.
- ↑ Repko, Melissa (30 March 2020). "Kohl's will furlough about 85,000 employees, Macy's furloughs majority as retailers cope with significant sales losses". CNBC.
- ↑ "COVID-19: support for businesses". GOV.UK. Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy. 24 March 2020. Archived from the original on 26 March 2020. Retrieved 26 March 2020.
- ↑ "Redundancy: your rights". www.gov.uk.
- ↑ Harvard University. Graduate School of Business Administration (1921). "Labor Terminology". Bulletin of the Bureau of Business Research. 25: 50. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
- ↑ Okatenko, Anna (1 January 2010). "The Impact of the Reason for Layoff on the Subsequent Unemployment Duration". Annals of Economics and Statistics (99/100): 285–315. doi:10.2307/41219168. JSTOR 41219168.
