How to reset after midlife redundancy
Your rights, who to turn to and what you should do next
27 April 2021 • 7:36am
Being made redundant during a pandemic isn t easy, but it can lead to amazing opportunities
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The pandemic has seen people in and out of work for the past year. While many have experienced this in the form of being furloughed, others have been made redundant as businesses feel the squeeze of financial pressures due to the pandemic. And midlifers are one of the groups who are being affected most - according to an analysis by Rest Less, an online platform that offers advice to people in their 50s and 60s, redundancies increased by 240 per cent for over-50s last year.
Katie Levers
A must read if you enjoyed The Beekeeper of Aleppo, and the devastation caused by social and cultural conflict and the effects it has on generations across continents.
I loved reading this book and discovering the injustice faced by Sameer, his friends and ancestors in the UK and Uganda. Uganda is a country I had no prior knowledge of but the author paints a picture of a place of beauty but also of societal and cultural upheaval. Relationships between family and friendships are so interwoven throughout the book that it sometimes seems they are all one, with the same injustices but continents and decades apart.