Japanese employers are making efforts to retain and attract more older workers.
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Our population is ageing and the workforce growing greyer, with Wednesday’s jobs data showing the number of over-65s in employment continuing to rise.
Pensions Minister Steve Webb is “determined” to tackle age discrimination.
Unemployed people in their 50s are finding their desperate hunt for a job ‘made worse’ by a key Government rule change.
More older people working longer is causing a bottleneck for younger staff - who will leave to join a rival company, organisations warn in a new report.
More than a third of older people intend to work past 65.
This article from PR week is written by Michelle Mitchell, Charity Director at Age UK, and explains the lengthy campaign she ran to end the default retirement age.
The University of Cambridge will continue to operate a retirement age.
On Saturday 1 October the default retirement age, which gives employers the right to fire people aged 65+ purely because of their age, will be abolished.
A recent study suggests nearly half of employers believe that the abolition of the DRA will have a negative impact on their business, with 22% citing the biggest practical impact being a reduced capacity to take on younger staff.
Statistics in a CIPD survey found older employees are given appraisals less frequently that their younger colleagues.
More than two-thirds of employers responding to the 2011 XpertHR retirement survey intend to allow their employees to retire whenever they wish, following the abolition of the default retirement age (DRA).
A recent survey carried out by Benefex and the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development has revealed employers’ responses to the abolition of the Default Retirement Age (DRA).
Employment law experts have condemned the Government's handling of the abolition of the default retirement age (DRA) amid claims that the forthcoming Regulations are confusing for employers and could leave them open to claims of age discrimination.
Georgina Jones, Associate at Sackers & Partners comments on the Government's age discrimination drive and its plans to abolish the Default Retirement Age (DRA). She also outlines the likely impact for workers and company pension schemes.
Workers will no longer be forced to retire at 65 under rules to stamp out age discrimination published by the government today in direct defiance of fierce lobbying from business groups to delay the measure.
A report published by the National Centre for Social Research found young people were more likely to report age discrimination over the past year. Researchers claim the age of austerity may entrench ageism and “deepen the fault lines” between generations.
Employers must formalise their flexible retirement policies ahead of the abolition of the default retirement age or risk breaching age discrimination laws, JLT Benefit Solutions warns.
With the default retirement age soon to be a relic of the past, DeeDee Doke discovers that the greater battle is to change both workers’ and employers’ attitudes to age and prevent age discrimination.
More southern workers plan to continue working after the default retirement age (DRA) than their northern counterparts, according to a report on ageing and retirement.