Carillion’s loss, your gain

FOR those who are expecting to be made redundant at Carillion, I would like to give a few words of encouragement. I have been made redundant five times and on every occasion I found employment again or took a training course to learn new skills.

I have been a steelworker, an insurance adviser, a diesel mechanic, a nurse and a teacher, while also serving as a reservist soldier for 25 years.

I was always ready to look for a change of employment rather than wait for another job in the same field to turn up. KEITH HOPKINS, Rotherham, S. Yorks.

PEOPlE in the medical profession, Armed Forces and police and airline pilots, ship’s captains and lorry drivers are all held legally accountable for mistakes because their failure to perform their duties can put others at risk. Yet this level of accountability does not apply in higher management, as shown in the banking crisis and in the collapse of Carillion.

It results in those at the top taking unacceptable risks, knowing they will not be held to account if their actions result in financial failure, and the rewards are such that they never need to work again.

Only fear of legal accountability and financial penalties will end this state of affairs.

DAVID SPENCER, Bridge, Kent.