If any more than that decided to leave, "we would have to replace employees," he said.

Most oil executives now say that the biggest problem facing their industry is finding enough young people to replace employees who retire.

When they can, employers will replace employees with smart machines.

The three claimed they were victims of a campaign to replace white managerial employees with black ones.

Employers respond by replacing employees with machines or moving to low- wage countries.

The officials said they wanted the rules changed to allow part-time workers to replace employees who go on leave for three weeks or more.

State law bars cities from using workfare workers to replace regular employees or to do their work.

In came 60 new window clerks and career postal workers to replace temporary employees who did not know the routes.

He abolished tenure and radically reduced the staff, sometimes replacing employees with members of his family.

In practice, this meant replacing federal employees with friends or party loyalists.