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It doesn't add up
- Author:
- PERRY Chris
- Journal article citation:
- Professional Social Work, May 2003, p.18.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Argues that the current pensions crisis is not helped by the fact that older people are being discriminated against in employment.
Older workers: learning from three international experiences
- Author:
- RIACH Kathleen
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Society, 5(4), October 2006, pp.551-563.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
The contributions in this issue serve as a timely reminder of the importance of choice and autonomy in later working life. As the UK embarks on legislation prohibiting age discrimination, this paper discusses international lessons which can be drawn from older worker experience and related policy in Japan, Australia and the United States. By exploring the integral role of social and cultural norms in the development of pension, retirement and anti-discrimination reform, it emphasizes the importance of taking a holistic approach to older worker opportunity which ensures that practice reflects the intentions behind policy.
Ageing issues
- Editors:
- DONNELLAN Craig, (ed.)
- Publisher:
- Independence
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 44p.
- Place of publication:
- Cambridge
There are 550 million older people worldwide. By 2025, there will be 1.2 billion. Such a large and rapid change is without precedent. This book looks at the resulting challenges that face both the UK Government and the individual. Topics discussed include age discrimination in the workplace and the impact of an ageing population on our health, welfare and pensions systems.
Voice of older people: annual report 2008-09
- Author:
- BAKEWELL Joan
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Government Equalities Office
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 31p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report is written by Joan Bakewell in her capacity as the Government’s Voice of Older People. It is an informal report, setting out the most important issues that have reached her in her year in the position, her response to them, and the ways that the Government is moving to improve the situation. The issues that she has been contacted about most are: domiciliary care; council tax and local government including the closure of public toilets; modern technology; the NHS’s treatment of the elderly and end of life care; retirement age; pensions for both UK residents and expatriates; and sheltered housing and care homes. Joan describes how, using her experience as a journalist and broadcaster, she has been raising awareness of these issues. The report also provides information on Government initiatives to improve the lives of older people including the Equality Bill and the Building a Society for All Ages strategy.
To retire or not to retire: is there an option for older workers in Hong Kong?
- Authors:
- CHOU Kee-Lee, CHOW Nelson W.S.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Administration, 39(3), June 2005, pp.233-246.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Over the next thirty years, Hong Kong will have a rapidly ageing population. One possible consequence of this will be a labour shortage, which means that it will be essential to strike a proper balance between the amount of time spent in work and the amount spent in retirement in old age. The balance is determined by the interaction between the aspiration of workers, employers’ attitudes to older workers, as well as the productivity of the labour force. This article examines the issue based on life-course theory and argues that the compartmentalization of education, work and retirement must be broken by changes in social policy. Three groups are identified as future older adults in the coming three decades: those who may be forced to retire early in their fifties, those who plan to retire in their sixties, and those who will continue to work until they can no longer work. The current situations of these groups are described, and social policies that are related to retirement pension scheme, age discrimination, life-long education, and flexible work arrangements are suggested to weaken the age structuring of education and employment institutions. The ultimate objective is to create a societal environment in which older workers have a real option either to work or to retire in the coming decades.
Ageing and employment policies: United Kingdom
- Author:
- ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT
- Publisher:
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 150p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Paris
In the face of rapid population ageing and the trend towards early retirement, there is a need to promote better employment opportunities for older people. Much has been said about the need for reform of old-age pensions and early retirement schemes but this may not be sufficient to raise employment rates for older people significantly or to reduce the future risk of labour shortages. Both governments and firms will need to take active measures to adapt wage-setting practices to ageing workforces, to address the extent to which other welfare schemes act as pathways to early retirement, to tackle age discrimination and to improve the job skills and working conditions of older workers. In addition, older workers will need to change their own attitudes towards working longer and acquiring new skills.
Age equality comes of age: delivering change for older people
- Authors:
- SPENCER Sarah, FREDMAN Sandra
- Publisher:
- Institute for Public Policy Research
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 122p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report says that the Government proposals to tackle ageism at work will not do enough to challenge age stereotypes and enable people to continue working. The new law, which will allow people to challenge age discrimination, would put the burden on older people to ‘complain their way to equality’. Employers will not have a duty, as they do for ethnic minorities, to take active steps to promote equality. Currently the average retirement age is only 61, but average life expectancy is 77 and rising. By 2014 there will be more people over 65 than under 16. One third of people over 50 but below state pension age are not in work. The Government should consult on proposals for extending the proposed age discrimination law to cover public services. The law should include a responsibility on employers and public services to promote age equality. The private sector, where 82.5 per cent of people work, should be subject to a light touch reporting mechanism on the steps they have taken. Mandatory retirement should be unlawful at any age, except in exceptional circumstances. The proposed new equality commission should also provide guidance to public services on those human rights that matter most to older people: the right to privacy and to family life and the avoidance of degrading treatment. Provision must be made before 2006 to provide guidance for employers on the substantial changes needed in culture and procedures at work; and subsequently for older people on their rights and new opportunities open to them.
The new old: why baby boomers won't be pensioned off
- Authors:
- HUBER Julia, SKIDMORE Paul
- Publisher:
- DEMOS
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 109p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Our society is ageing rapidly and by 2007 those over 65 will outnumber those under 16 for the first time. However, few have considered how the baby boomer generation, those who have dealt with radical social, economic and political change throughout their lives, will react to their changing circumstances. The baby boomers have the power to rewrite the political agenda, not only on issues such as the retirement age and work/life balance but also euthanasia and access to health care. It is unclear however whether these pensioners will forward their own interests at the expense of their children or whether they will fight for further social change.
Financing the future: mind the gap!: the implications of an ageing population; key findings and proposed actions
- Editors:
- BAKER David, PRICE Marcus
- Publisher:
- Financial Services Authority
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 43p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report examines the pensions crisis and advises on the risks involved, and the alternatives available to both employers and employees.
Speaking up for our age: a report of the regional conferences held across the UK, Spring 1999
- Publisher:
- Help the Aged
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 12p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Reports the regional conferences held in Chester, Grantham, Cardiff, Bristol, London and Stirling (the Northern Ireland conference is reported separately). The conferences explored a range of issues associated with setting up a local group. Workshops were held at each conference on: pensions, transport, affordable warmth, and making use of the media.