Retirement issues by Nick Venedi

Government figures released today suggest that 1 in 6 people alive today, around 10 million, will live to the age of 100. Good news for those who make it of course but not so good for those who will be condemned to live in poverty.The stats of course do not tell us how comfortable or easy people in retirement will be and with proposals to change the pensions system it will mean that those who retire will need to at least be in part time employment to survive.The major difficulty with the theory that links retirement with continuing to work is the fact that there is huge prejudice by employers towards anyone who is either under 23 or over 50 with stats showing that it is 3 times harder for someone over 50 to get an interview never mind a job. So I have no idea how the government intends to encourage people to remain in employment if it is so hard for that group to get a job? How many of us know of reorganisations where the employer is so clear that anyone over a certain age has to be removed?The unions have to do more on this subject as well and initiatives to deal with ageism and ageist attitudes need to be developed in line with other EOP policies. The reality is that if you are over 50 and you are out of a job because of redundancy then it will be very hard for you to find another job

Nick Venedi, Keep postal services public

http://www.cwu.org/campaign-blog.html

Nick Venedi, Vince Cable

http://lawatwork.blogspot.com/2010/12/are-coalition-cables-at-breaking-point.html

Nick Venedi, xmas party

http://lawatwork.blogspot.com/2010/12/great-xmas-party.html

Oil prices

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23801313-falling-oil-prices-hit-bt-profits.do

Nick Venedi, Stop cruelty to animals

Traditions are a beautiful and warm way to celebrate holidays. But not when they include animal cruelty, like slicing off the fins of live sharks to make shark fin soup.Shark fin soup is a dish served on Lunar New Year and at other celebratory events like weddings. But the origins of this meal are unsavory and cruel: It's produced by hunting and catching sharks, slicing off their fins, and throwing them back into the sea to die by suffocation, blood loss or predation by other species.Tens of millions of sharks are killed every year to meet the demand for shark fin soup, a terrible blow to the many species of which are already threatened

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Nick Venedi, standards of service

http://lawatwork.blogspot.com/2010/11/standards-of-service.html

nick venedi comments

http://lawatwork.blogspot.com/2010/12/regulation-and-blogs.html

Action for jobs and services

http://lawatwork.blogspot.com/2010/12/tuc-march-26-march-2011.html

Nick Venedi

Internet petition on jobs

The TUC and the International Trade Union Confederation are supporting an Avaaz internet petition to send to French President Nicholas Sarkozy to get jobs and growth onto the global agenda of the G20 in 2011. Please support the petition and encourage others to sign up.http://www.tuc.org.uk/international/tuc-18932-f0.cfm

Keep the postal services public

Support the rally organised b the CSU on the 15 December in central London and stop them from privatising the postal services!

http://www.cwu.org/december-15-rally.html

Nick Venedis blog

http://www.blogcatalog.com/blogs/nick-venedis-world

Nick Venedi comments

http://lawatwork.blogspot.com/2010/12/14000-years-for-sri-lankan-sportswear.html

Nick Venedi, money advice

I recently helped a friend recover money back from a bank that sold him a loan with compulsory insurance. The process was not complicated and it took less than a month to get a full refund. It is important that people who find themselves in that position take steps to get what they were forced to back and this applies to loans you may have had as long as 6 years ago so don't just say you are too busy to take action, you need a have clear plan and you have to do it, and if you don't have time and you can do with some help email me (don't send a comment on here) and I will see what I can do to help. And of course you don't need to go to expensive solicitors to start the ball rolling

Cost of living

Last month's inflation figures, showing RPI at 4.5 per cent in October, represented 'bad news for struggling families', the TUC said in response. With fourth-fifths of pay deals below 3 per cent, VAT about to be hiked, and a pay freeze about to begin in the public sector for workers on £21,000 or above, millions of workers faced a harsh cut in their living standards.More on this @

http://www.tuc.org.uk/economy/tuc-18817-f0.cfm

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