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Last modified on Mon 15 Feb 2021 16.42 EST It may not appear the most auspicious time to start a business. Britain has been in lockdown for five of the past 11 months. The economy shrank almost 10% last year. Unemployment is skyrocketing. But Lucie Halley-Trotter is undeterred. This year she launched her first company, an ethical, sustainable fashion brand, EYO, that takes recycled ocean and landfill waste and remakes it into sportswear. “I’ve had a lot of stern warnings from people saying ‘are you sure it’s a good idea to start right now?’,” Halley-Trotter muses...

“If I retire earlier than the state pension age and then my husband loses his job, it would be a catastrophe,” she added. “I know there are things like universal credit but we’ve never had to lean on government support before and I’m not sure that my husband would even entertain the idea.” Since the Equality Act 2010 made it illegal to discriminate against someone based on age, employment rates among people aged 50-plus have steadily risen. Before the pandemic, rates had reached a historic high, with a record 10.7 million people aged 50 and over in work – nearly a third of the U...

Rethinking IT recruitment IT job applications tend to look for skills in particular technologies, but for some tech roles, life skills and worldly experience are equally important Share this item with your network: By Published: 28 Jan 2021 15:03 According to the Office for National Statistics, the UK unemployment rate in the three months to November 2020 was estimated at 5%. The data shows that 828,000 jobs have been lost since the pandemic began, with almost half of those workers aged over 45. Meanwhile, research from Microsoft shows a wave of career switching among workers aged over 4...

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STATE PENSION age campaign group Women Again State Pension Inequality (WASPI) has spoken of the 'fresh challenges' some women are currently facing, following the state pension age changes for women.