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 [...]
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]
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
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 [...]
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 [...]
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’ [...]
Susan Ryan, has said that organisations are under employing older people at the expense of business productivity. Speaking at the Australian Industry Group Personnel and Industrial Relations Conference held in Canberra yesterday, Ryan said that businesses must reassess the construct of the ‘ideal employee’. See the article at Human Capital
AARP in the USA have released an updated study on how boomers are preparing for or experiencing their retirement years. This is the third in a series of studies. The previous ones were conducted in 1998 and 2003. While we know from the NZ Boomers Dreams study that there are differences it is none the [...]
The October edition of Diversity Matters the publication of the Diversity Council of Australia focuses on the ageing workforce. Lots of good reading including compelling statistics and case studies To read the online version click here.
An interesting article in The Australian 22 October 2011 discusses the impact of government policies and the GFC on labour market participation rates. Read the full article here Excerpts “Market forces are sending them [boomers] back to work as part of a great national reset that is seeing younger Australians learning to save like their [...]
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