Allergies are the result of a hypersensitive immune system. The allergic immune system misidentifies an otherwise innocuous substance as harmful, and then attacks the substance with a ferocity far greater than required.
Laying off an employee is different from firing an employee. Firing means letting a worker go for any reason, whereas a layoff refers to an employment termination based on economics, usually involving more than one worker.
Employee productivity is a major concern for employers and lower productivity cannot be blamed on the employee entirely. 1  A lot of it has to do with the environment at the work place, and the work conditions along with a series of factors that define the work culture. Employers have to implement wide spread changes in their setup to improve the productivity of their work force.