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An ageing workforce
— the employer's perspective | | Author(s) | Helen Barnes, Deborah Smeaton, Rebecca Taylor |
| Corporate Author | Institute for Employment Studies - IES |
| Publisher | Institute for Employment Studies - IES, Brighton, 2009 |
| Pages | 124 pp (Report 468) |
| Source | Download from website: http://www.employment-studies.co.uk/news/report.ph... IES, Sovereign House, Church Street, Brighton BN1 1UJ. |
| Keywords | Employment of older people ; Recruitment ; Attitude ; Isolation ; Occupational health ; Qualitative Studies. |
| Annotation | Against a widely recognised background of workforce ageing, skills shortages, an early retirement culture and the prospect of a pensions crisis, prolonging the labour market participation of older workers has become a key policy objective in the UK. Work-life balance policies and flexible employment can provide the means of prolonging labour market engagement. Changes in retirement behaviour will therefore originate primarily from the demand side, i.e. employers' policies. This study assesses the range of schemes introduced to prevent early exit (whether voluntary or involuntary) and to facilitate the employment of staff to pension age and beyond. To what extent is a preventative framework deployed, and under what circumstances do employers struggle to be progressive? The project was designed to explore how effectively and comprehensively different types of employer (e.g. by size and sector) are responding to workforce ageing. In addition, the study set out to identify progress and ascertain where scope for improvement remains, highlighting whether, where and why employers encounter difficulties, in order to suggest policy solutions. The report focuses on recruiting older workers (including consideration of equal opportunities policies and age discrimination), and managing health and an ageing workforce. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-091202204 E |
| Classmark | GC: WK6: DP: TP: L:WK: 3DP |
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