
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


What's it like for older people losing their job during the Covid pandemic?
Tamasin Ford speaks to 59 year old lighting crew chief Michael Heggett. He's worked on events like Princess Diana’s funeral, the London’s Olympic games and Nelson Mandela’s 70th birthday concert. He had a fantastic career until Covid hit and he lost all his work. He fears he might never be employed again. Patrick Button, an assistant economics professor at Tulane University in the USA says his research shows that older workers are being disproportionately impacted by Covid. And Yvonne Sonsino from Mercer, a global human resources firm, says that the long term outcomes for older people are not good, particularly for their pensions?
(Picture credit: Getty Creative)
By BBC World Service4.4
488488 ratings
What's it like for older people losing their job during the Covid pandemic?
Tamasin Ford speaks to 59 year old lighting crew chief Michael Heggett. He's worked on events like Princess Diana’s funeral, the London’s Olympic games and Nelson Mandela’s 70th birthday concert. He had a fantastic career until Covid hit and he lost all his work. He fears he might never be employed again. Patrick Button, an assistant economics professor at Tulane University in the USA says his research shows that older workers are being disproportionately impacted by Covid. And Yvonne Sonsino from Mercer, a global human resources firm, says that the long term outcomes for older people are not good, particularly for their pensions?
(Picture credit: Getty Creative)

7,913 Listeners

4,225 Listeners

1,067 Listeners

296 Listeners

427 Listeners

5,576 Listeners

1,808 Listeners

2,113 Listeners

357 Listeners

427 Listeners

52 Listeners

227 Listeners

238 Listeners

346 Listeners

235 Listeners

684 Listeners

232 Listeners

326 Listeners

3,245 Listeners

73 Listeners

689 Listeners

528 Listeners

630 Listeners

394 Listeners

41 Listeners

239 Listeners

54 Listeners

146 Listeners

80 Listeners

96 Listeners