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Recruiting more over-50s

Steve Bridger

Interesting...

Firms pledge to recruit more over-50s

  • Aviva, Barclays, Atos and five other firms have agreed to promote over-50s employment by publishing data about the age of their workforce. 
  • They are responding to a call from the government's Business Champion for Older Workers, Andy Briggs. 
  • In February, he asked firms to increase older worker numbers by 12% by 2022.
  • Mr Briggs warned that by then, there will be 14.5 million more jobs, but only seven million younger workers entering the workplace.
  • He said older workers were vital in filling the UK's "colossal skills gap".

Do you know how many employees you have 'Over 50' - and the proportion of your workforce?

What practical steps would you take to make this happen? Positive discrimination?

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  • What is your definition of an older worker?  For some employers they see this as anyone 45 +.  Do employers not realise that even at 45 you have not reached your prime as far as your knowledge and experience base and the value that you can bring to an organisation.

    I see the term 'older workers' as being another phrase for age discrimination.  Surely an older worker is anyone working beyond the accepted age of retirement i.e. 65?  Should we not agree what we mean when we refer to our employees (and ourselves) in this way so that we are not writing out a group of highly valued and valuable people? 

    Given that people are living longer and we will have a group of highly experienced employees amongst us for longer than was previously the case what strategies do we have in place to motivate them and ensure they feel valued.  How do we integrate those younger and less experienced employees with this group?

    In 2011 the government stated that "Over the next decade, the changing age profile of the workforce will be the most significant development in the UK labour market, as a third of workers will be over 50 by 2020".  How are we preparing ourselves for this change?

    Look forward to seeing other members comments.

  • in reply to Melanie

    Hi Melanie - I've merged your thread with the one I started last week. Hope that's OK - they cover the same ground.

    Steve

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