A recent court decision has qualified a 1998 ruling that workers cannot be laid off if they have been given reason to believe that their jobs will be safe, provided that their performance remains satisfactory.
if they have been given reason to believe that their jobs will
if they are given reason for believing that their jobs would still
having been given reason for believing that their jobs would
having been given reason to believe their jobs to
given reason to believe that their jobs will still
This sentence asserts that a court decision has qualified a 1998 ruling. It then goes
on to explain the series of conditions stipulated by that ruling: workers cannot be
laid off if they have been given (prior) reason to believe that continued satisfactory
job performance will (always) ensure that their jobs are safe. To express these
complicated temporal relationships, the present tense passive verb cannot be laid
off describes the assurance provided by the ruling;
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