Finale ending for crew
A RETIREE who made headlines for his walking feats during lockdown has now written a book on Irish pensions.
Retired business consultant Vinod Bajaj (71), claimed his self-published work Pension Without Tension is the first dedicated guide to the pension system in Ireland.
“No better man to write about pensions than a pensioner,” said Mr Bajaj, who wrote the book in three months during lockdown.
Mr Bajaj based the book on his own experience building a personal pension during his business career.
Myths
“My aim is to give people a simple pension message,” he said.
“These days people have got myths and misconceptions about pensions, they think it’s very complicated, and what I have done in the book is made it in the language of the common man.
“So it is simplified, there are no graphs and charts and it is easy to understand.”
In 2016, Mr Bajaj aimed to walk the equivalent distance of the circumference of the earth – 40,075 km – and said he completed it last year amid the pandemic.
AN 11TH-HOUR deal has been reached to avert a strike by film and television crews that would have seen some 60,000 behind-the-scenes workers walk off their jobs and freeze work on productions in Hollywood and across the US.
After days of marathon negotiations, representatives from the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) and from the studios and entertainment companies who employ them reached the three-year contract agreement, avoiding a serious setback for an industry that has just returned to work after long pandemic shutdowns.