Under that system a worker with seniority can displace any worker with less seniority if there are layoffs.

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) is responsible for ensuring that foreign workers do not displace or adversely affect wages or working conditions of U.S. workers.

But they don't mention the hardship - the persistent unemployment and underemployment - faced by younger workers ill prepared for new jobs and older workers displaced from their present long-held jobs.

Hotel workers can move to hospitals; airline ticket agents can work at banks; workers displaced in Chinatown may find jobs in Flusing, Queens.

New entries to the labor force are falling and most workers displaced by imports have found other jobs.

During the war he met and worked with Clare Britton, a psychiatric social worker who became his colleague in treating children displaced from their homes by wartime evacuation.

Its stated goal is to "protect U.S. workers and the U.S. labor market by ensuring that foreign workers seeking immigrant visa classifications are not displacing equally qualified U.S. workers".

Q. Critics of that argument say the existence of the trade balance nevertheless means foreign workers are displacing Americans.

Displaced workers defined as "workers displaced due to plant closing or relocation, elimination of position or shift, and insufficient work".

Mill owners hired these French immigrants to staff their mills more cheaply than American and Irish-born workers, who were themselves displaced.