If you’re worried about losing your job, is insurance worth it?
After the payment protection insurance mis-selling scandal, is unemployment cover ever worth buying?
The other day I received an email from a SavvyWoman user called Lisa, who wanted to know if it was worth buying redundancy insurance cover. PPI (payment protection insurance) has a pretty shocking reputation – but are the policies much better today or do they have the same problems? And if you want to take out a policy that will pay out if you can't work, what should you look for?
If you’ve lost your job how can you improve your chances of getting back into work?
Losing your job is likely to knock your confidence but don’t delay in trying to get back into work
When the financial crisis first hit home many of the job losses affected men, and women seemed to be spared the worst of the job cuts. But in recent months many of the jobs that have been lost have been in the public sector which is a big employer of women. The most recent unemployment figures showed that the number of women out of work had risen by 8,500 in May, with more women out of work than at any time since 1996. So if you’ve lost your job how can you help yourself get back into work?
With more people being made redundant in coming months, what are your rights if you’re made redundant?
Redundancy rights; when can your employer make you redundant and what can you do if you think it's unfair?
With 2½ million people now out of work and unemployment rates expected to rise, more will be facing redundancy. Redundancy is normally bad news and may come out of the blue. If you’ve been selected for redundancy, how do you know if you’ve been chosen fairly and what are you entitled to by way of a redundancy package? Many of the rules around redundancy aren’t clear but you may have more rights than you think.
