Staying On Australia

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 [...]

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 [...]

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]

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 [...]

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’ [...]

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.

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

The Australian Human Capital newsletter 9 November 2011 profiles a new book released by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER).  Older Workers: research findings is a new book of research essays which have been written since a roundtable was held in Canberra in May.  To read the Human Capital article click here Chapters [...]

The European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedeforp) has produced a 366 page report Working and Ageing:Emerging theories and empirical perspectives. The publication can be downloaded from Cedeforps website. Click here It is a comprehensive research informed publication. Worth dipping in to any of the 16 the chapters that may interest you.  Overall [...]

The Australian 22 October 2011 carries a great story of a company that values older workers. Read the article here Bunnings has recruited about 2000 “team members” aged over 55 in the past five years, making them one of the biggest employers of older Australians.  Retaining workers who are past normal retirement age is also [...]