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Many people want or need to continue working as they get older but can face barriers in doing so.

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How to ensure flexible working works for employers and employees

Employees have gained new flexible working rights this year and the Labour government are set to outlay plans to expand those rights further.

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The government’s major employment support reforms could make a major difference to workers in their 50s and 60s…if they really want it to

The government recently published proposals to reform employment, health and skills support to tackle economic inactivity and support people into good work in the form of its Get Britain Working Again White Paper.

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Government unveils “biggest employment reforms in a generation”

The Department for Work and Pensions has today published the Get Britain Working White Paper, outlining reforms it hopes will help raise the national employment rate towards their target of 80%.

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Why the over 50s are key to solving the health and work dilemma

Our comprehensive health and work evidence review finds older people with a long-term health condition more likely to be out-of-work than younger peers.

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Overtly ageist businesses will pay the price for such blinkered thinking – in a myriad of ways

An employment tribunal has granted a multi-million award to a senior executive dismissed by a firm that had a policy of only hiring people under the age of 45.

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How to be an Age-friendly Business: A framework for customer-facing settings

This framework has been developed to communicate what it means to be an age-friendly business and organises a broad range of ideas into the key steps any business can take to become more age-friendly.

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If Labour want to kickstart economic growth, it is vital that any reform of employment support includes specific focus on older workers

This week the government has outlined initial reforms to the Department for Work and Pensions in a bid to tackle growing levels of economic inactivity and welfare spending.

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Being age-friendly makes perfect sense for businesses – and the customers they serve

Being age-friendly makes perfect sense for businesses – and the customers they serve.

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