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16/12/2008
TUC: Many people are facing redundancy for the first time |
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The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has claimed that many people are facing up to the prospect of being made redundant for the first time in their lives.
Brendan Barber, general secretary of the TUC, is forecasting that unemployment could surpass two million and may even hit the three million mark.
More than 1,500 people a week are losing their jobs and to help these people the TUC is producing two new free booklets - Coping with the Economic Downturn and Facing Redundancy.
Those who have been made redundant are urged to order Facing Redundancy, which contains a comprehensive guide to "the law on redundancy, redundancy pay, employers' duties to consult and to select the person being made redundant in a fair and open manner".
Mr Barber says that unions are experts at handling the "threat" of redundancy and habitually win the argument for "alternatives" or can at least negotiate a package better than the legal minimum.
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