Staying On Australia

Key Information

For Government

Over the next 5 -10 years public organisations face a significant risk, the loss of the knowledge and expertise of older workers built up over the past decades.

For Business

Increasingly employees will want to work for age friendly employers. As skill shortages increase, employers have the opportunity to become an age friendly employer of choice.

Staying On Gateway

The Staying On Gateway is a password protected online portal for member organisations. Access to up to date information, resources, templates and research.

Latest Information

UK employers unprepared for ageing workforce

Wednesday 28 March 2012 Research Paper “The Employment Relations Challenges of an Ageing Workforce” “There is little evidence of UK employers taking proactive steps to engage and retain older workers according to new research conducted by Cranfield School of Management and Nottingham Business School for Acas, the employment relations expert.” Read the Press Release here [...]

Employ “Outside the Box”

The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI), Australia’s largest and most representative business organisation, has released a ‘call to arms’ for Australian employers to expand workforce participation by employing ‘Outside the Box’ when they next recruit. While covering a wide range of groups including people with disabilities, women, indigenous peoples it was this comment [...]

An Age-Old Issue

Tackling talent shortages and generational change involves challenging a few sacred cows. An article I wrote for HR Monthly February 2012. To download the article click here Olderworkers-FEB[3]

Leveraging an Older Workforce

An article by Victoria Rollison written for Talent 2. The article starts with the question Skills shortages and an aging population – does your company have a strategy to attract older workers? Read more here

Germany: Government Finds that Encouraging Older Workers to Stay Increases Business Productivity

Following its decision to raise the national retirement age to 67, the German government has released a report that having employees between the ages of 45 and 67 increases a business’s productivity. In the first of semi-annual progress reports, the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs has released “Fortschrittsreport „Altersgerechte Arbeitswelt“ Ausgabe 1: Entwicklung des [...]

Competitive countries will make best use of older workers: new book

Countries able to best make use of older workers seeking to remain employed beyond retirement age will have a competitive advantage over those that don’t, according to a new book released by the World Economic Forum in Davos. Global Population Ageing: Peril or Promise?, contains a collection of essays written by business and political leaders [...]

Active Inclusion Policies are Only Answer to Employment Impact of Ageing Workers

The labour market shortfall caused by the decline in Europe’s population and workforce will not be offset by increasing immigration levels nor by higher fertility and productivity rates, delegates will be told at the Opening Conference of the 2012 European Year of Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations in Copenhagen. To read the opening statement [...]

Reskilling for encore careers for (what were once) retirement years

This is a very good report just released by NCVER Australia. It has a number of key messages for the tertiary education sector in terms of providing programmes to enable older workers to re-skill for encore careers. Download here The chapter headings give a flavor of the report Ageing in the third age Older workers’ [...]

Realising the Economic Potential of Senior Australians – turning grey into gold

The third report from the Advisory Panel on the Economic Potential of Senior Australians was presented to the Hon Wayne Swan at the Older Workers Workability Conference in December 2011. Click here. The report makes 36 recommendations ranging across the ageing agenda, housing, participation, lifelong learning, active ageing, volunteering and philanthropy and age discrimination. A [...]

Ageing and the Barriers to Labour Force Particpation in Australia

This report prepared on behalf of the Consultative Forum on Mature Age Participation by National Seniors Australia is available at click here. Launched by the Hon Kate Ellis at the Older Workers Workability conference in December 2011 the report identifies 14 key barriers to participation.

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Become an age friendly employer

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