Tag Archives: Unemployment

Redundancy at 50 or even 45 – Part 2

Posted on August 9, 2012 by Jon Stow

The man who fell to earth We discussed the other day our accountant who has been unemployed for three years and is now 50. We have heard about the dramatic drop in income, about living on cheap food, the problem … Continue reading →

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Redundancy at 50 or even 45 – Part 1

Posted on August 6, 2012 by Jon Stow

  Hard times There was a story published recently in the Daily Mail about an unemployed accountant who has fallen on hard times. He seems to have lost his employment in his late forties. That is an all too familiar … Continue reading →

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Panorama of sad tales

Posted on April 5, 2011 by Jon Stow

The programme did well to highlight the difficulties, including the direct discrimination based on age, the greater difficulty in getting a job after having been out of work for a month or so. The longer someone is jobless, the more difficult it is even to get an interview. Continue reading →

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Are we pre-conditioned for our working lives?

Posted on July 3, 2010 by Jon Stow

I was listening to a discussion on a news channel this morning in which there was a debate about the new British Coalition’s proposals to get unemployed people to where the work is by helping them re-locate, and how this … Continue reading →

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Have we bred a dependent society?

Posted on April 18, 2010 by Jon Stow

As part of the election coverage Sky News ran an interview with an IT manager who had been out of work for fifteen months, The angle was to ask what he was looking for amongst the policies of the various … Continue reading →

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