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Publications
Guidance
- 20 key facts your business needs to know about age legislation (PDF - 49KB)
- Age and the Workplace (PDF - 563KB)
- Age isn't an issue - Employers' guide to your 21st Century workforce (PDF - 380KB)
- Are you over 50? (PDF - 619KB)
- Opportunity Age - Meeting the challenges of ageing in the 21st century (PDF - 2.56MB)
- Removing ageism: make it your business (PDF - 224KB)
- The impact of Age Regulations on pension schemes (PDF 1.1MB) Please note that this document is 125 pages long.
Research
- Employer responses to an ageing workforce: a qualitative study (PDF - 800KB)
- Flexible Retirement: snapshot of employer practice 2006 (PDF - 227KB)
- Managing an ageing workforce in business services (PDF - 281KB)
- Managing an ageing workforce in construction (PDF - 201KB)
- Managing an ageing workforce in education (PDF - 272KB)
- Managing an ageing workforce in health and social care (PDF - 280KB)
- Managing an ageing workforce in hospitality (PDF - 261KB)
- Managing an ageing workforce in manufacturing (PDF - 235KB)
- Managing an ageing workforce in retail (PDF - 288KB)
- Managing an ageing workforce in the 'other community' sector (PDF - 277KB)
- Managing an ageing workforce in transport and logistics (PDF - 260KB)
- Survey of employer's policies, practices and preferences relating to age (PDF 464KB)
- Training participation by age amongst unemployed and inactive people (PDF - 426KB)
- What employers look for when recruiting the unemployed and inactive (PDF - 203KB)
Statistical Information: Older Workers
- Older Workers: Statistical Information Booklet, Quarter Two, Apr - Jun 2007 (PDF - 286KB)
- Older Workers: Statistical Information Booklet - Quarter Four - Autumn 2006 (PDF - 269KB)
- Older Workers: Statistical Information Booklet - Spring 2006 (PDF - 287KB)
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