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Laid off and angry - now what?

Retrenchment isn't easy for anyone - so how do you cope?

7 Apr 2009

Statistics show that in South Africa, you have ever chance of being retrenched at least once in your working life. The challenge is… what are you going to do should the ‘unmentionable' occur?

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