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My impression is that there is a legal issue in calling something a layoff, in that the position has to have been eliminated.

• vsskanth 7y ago
  I believe you don't qualify for unemployment insurance if you are fired, as opposed to laid off.
  • rhizome 7y ago
    Yeah that's the basic difference, but I believe there's also something accounting-ish or tax-y about it, too.