冗员

The management decided to economise by cutting the dead wood from the workforce,thus reducing the wages bill.

方决定节省开,裁减劳动力中的冗员,这样可以减少工。

The company is caught in a double bind.If it doesn’t modernise it won’t make money, but if it does modernise they’ll have to make people redundant because they won’t need them any more.

这家公进退两难。实行现代化就无法盈利,要实行现代化就会有冗员,因为公再需要他们。