Today sees the release of the Mature Age Employment Practical Guide, an online, one-stop resource for employing people over 45 in Australia.
The guide is designed to address the needs of small and medium-sized businesses. It includes information on how to find and keep experienced, older workers and what HR policies and practices employers need to implement to respond to the smaller, older workforce.
The message is, if you don’t keep your older workers you’re heading for trouble.
“The country can’t afford to retire its most experience workers. We simply do not have queues of similarly experienced workers waiting in the wings,” Minister Stone said today in a media release.
“As the population ages, and the generations following the baby boomers continue to shrink, Australian businesses need to reassess their attitudes to mature age workers. Successful businesses will be those who retain older workers.
According to Dr Stone, “Businesses must appreciate the importance and financial benefits of keeping or recruiting mature age staff to meet their skills needs.”
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