Note – this is not a suggested alternative to anything else offered to people who lose their jobs. This is in addition.
Being retrenched, or being made redundant, is possibly going to become a major aspect of society in the coming decades. Potentially we are entering the age of leisure, where coming up with new jobs to keep us busy becomes difficult.
As I discuss elsewhere, a major roadblock to a UBI (Universal Basic Income) is the presumption that it needs to be universal from day one. I am advocating for UBI by stealth, where is appears in different places under other names and guises, and given a chance to prove itself.
For a UBI to work it needs to be based on the minimum amount required for someone to live, the bare basics, but with dignity. Once we have established what that amount is (and it can vary according to circumstances, for example, if you have children) we can start sneaking it into society.
The loss of jobs is a strong argument against progressive policies and actions, like combating climate change. What happens to miners?
A UBI can be added to the arsenal of other solutions to redundancies, such as retraining and exit payments from the employer. The government can say that nobody will starve, and nobody will be forced to complete the requirements to receive an unemployment benefit. Especially so for mining, this means that people are given a greater capacity to remain where they currently live.
Again, this is not a solution, this is a little extra to help.
Politicians shouldn’t mention not starving 
It could be called a Reestablishment Benefit that recognises that their skills are no longer needed by society, and potentially not transferrable, and therefore it helps them maintain the life they are used to when they take on new, different and probably lower paid employment.