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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Working and Ageing

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 [...]

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