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Someone else’s redundancy

Losing your job can be a devastating experience, but what if it's not you joining the Jobcentre queue, but someone close to you? Here's how to cope if your partner, relative or friend has been made redundant.

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Someone else losing their job can be as hard as if you had

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By Anne Wollenberg and David Samson

Updated on 29-Sep-2015

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