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Older workers are needed to help the UK remedy the challenges of a future employment gap.
It is predicted that UK employers will need to fill an estimated 13.5 million job vacancies in the next ten years, but only 7 million young people will leave education over this period. Employers will increasingly need to rely on older workers to fill these vacancies.
New guidance from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) ‘Managing a healthy ageing workforce: A national business imperative’, produced in collaboration with the Scottish Centre for Healthy Working Lives, stresses the need for employers to act now, or risk the consequences.
www.50plusworks.com is a free to use website designed to assist staff in provider organisations who are helping older jobseekers to return to work. The good practice guide and toolkit was developed and operated by The Age and Employment Network (TAEN).
‘50 Plus Works’ was developed as part of the recognition that older people may need a different type of support to recover from the economic downturn. TAEN were contracted to work closely with provider organisations in developing and promoting a good-practice guide.
This report is a critical assessment of how useful the toolkit is to staff in DWP provider organisations helping older jobseekers return to work in terms of ease of use, accessibility and the quality of the content.
The Government has set out its decisions about the earnings level that determine when people will be enrolled into a workplace pension and the band of earnings that will be covered.
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