Staying On New Zealand

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 [...]

Friday, 30 March 2012, 11:00 am Press Release: New Zealand Government Hon Kate Wilkinson Minister of Labour A review of workers’ rights to ask for flexible work arrangements has found strong support for extending the power to all employees. Read the Press Release here Read the Department of Labour report here

Eloise Gibson Sunday Star Times 26.3.12 Foreshadows a report to be released by the EEO Trust mid year. Read the article here. Read the EEO release here

A news release from Roy Morgan research. 20 March 2012 “New Zealanders aged 55-plus have increased their share of household net wealth in the past decade, mainly from investment in their own homes, and are staying in the workforce longer, according to Roy Morgan Research” To read the NBR article click here To read the [...]

Tackling talent shortages and generational change involves challenging a few sacred cows. A case study by Geoff Pearman published in the Australian HR Monthly February 2012. Click here to download Olderworkers-FEB[3]

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 [...]

I am just back from Australia and was again struck by the level of coverage of issues related to the ageing population, the sophisticated understanding of the economic contribution older workers can make and awareness of age discrimination. In New Zealand we had the excellent Business of Ageing report in early 2011, but apart from [...]

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 [...]

The Department of Labour have released a report on the impact of the legislative changes made in 2008 that enabled greater flexibility for people with caring responsibilities. Among the main findings: A majority of employee-reported requests for flexibility were accepted by employers without recourse to the formal legal process. Interestingly, the level of awareness of [...]

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 [...]