Husband effectively made redundant by my brother

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Am I being unreasonable to upset that my brother has allowed his business to fold and left my husband essentially redundant, but brother hasn’t acknowledged the situation and is not booking any work.

My husband has worked as the sole employee of my brother’s business for over a decade. Work used to be steady and kept both my brother’s and my own family afloat.
Work has dropped off a cliff in the last year, and my brother (the business owner) doesn’t seem to be bothered to do anything to remedy the situation and doesn’t care that my family is sliding deeper in to debt and a significantly reduced standard of living. My brother’s wife has a secure job so he seems happy to live on that and essentially pretend that he still has a business.
So my husband has been made redundant but my brother has not declared this (I think he may be in denial).
I know normally an employee would be entitled to redundancy pay, but my brother won’t acknowledge the business is dead or make any moves to resurrect it. I feel he’s stringing my husband along. If my husband gets a new job, that will be the final nail in the coffin of the business, and it seems horrible to demand redundancy pay from family and to force my brother to acknowledge that we are suffering due to his inertia.
Any advice or opinions would be appreciated!

I’m sorry but your husband needs to get his arse in gear and sort out some work and stop being such a wet blanket waiting for it to find him he’s had 10 easy years of someone else sorting out the day to day now he needs to shift for himself and find some work - get registered with some agencies etc if he works in any form of construction there’s tonnes of work you just have to put yourself out there. If this doesn’t sound especially compassionate it’s because it’s not meant to be. If you rely on tea and sympathy to get you through then you are going to struggle because the worlds not like that and the sooner you realise it the better off you will be.

Of course all sales jobs arent "unethical", I dont even understand what he means by that.
Its just an excuse but to be fair its not for everyone and he might not be able to do it anymore but surely he can give it a go?
Good thing about Sales Jobs is that it can be easier to get one than some other types of jobs - its harder to keep one as you live or die by your results but if hes any good he should be fine.