In Australia the company sacked workers nearing their 20th birthdays to avoid paying adult wages.

B) To stop private firms, sacking good loyal workers and moving jobs abroad C) tackling the out of control hedge funds, bankers etc.

Japan's big firms are not given to sacking workers publicly.

A London council has already been found to be sacking workers and reemploying people to do those same jobs on Workfare.

MPs are demanding an inquiry into claims that Britain's largest compact disc maker is deliberately sacking workers before they become entitled to redundancy pay.

However, stories of employers sacking workers as a direct result of negative mystery shopper feedback are not uncommon.

Without unions fighting to keep up wages, employers are free to cut back costs by squeezing pay rather than by sacking marginal workers.

Enterprises have sacked workers and are running at much less than their full capacity.

Capitalism is just as much about creating jobs as it is about sacking workers and restructuring companies that aren't profitable.

In 2001, Argos sparked a political controversy in Scotland, when it sacked several workers for refusing to work on a Sunday.