Employment

Supporting the 50+ workforce back into employment

This guide is aimed at frontline employability workers, managers and their teams. It is designed to help you better understand and support jobseekers in their 50s and 60s - whether you work at Jobcentre Plus, for a contracted provider, or in a voluntary community organisation.

What the RSPCA is doing to support their older workers

The RSPCA is the largest and oldest animal welfare charity within the UK, and has a workforce of 1500 staff, and over 7000 volunteers of varying ages.

Uncontrolled power, not age, is the problem with faltering leaders

When older leaders start to falter, age is almost inevitably brought up as a reason for their failing competency.

Are older workers any better off following the back-to-work budget?

The recent budget has been billed both a back to work budget for the over 50s and a budget for the rich.

Conditions not met for further acceleration of state pension age increases

The government has announced that a mooted acceleration in the state pension age increase to 68 from 2037 will not be brought forward.

What I learned from working with Ageing Better on their first group coaching prototype

Ageing Better’s new scheme to help older workers bounce back from the shock of redundancy provides something different from existing models of support.

Why The Apprentice is missing a trick by excluding older workers

There have been more candidates called Alex than candidates aged over 40 since the BBC first launched The Apprentice in 2005.

An older workers leading a meeting with a whiteboard

What we learned from working with over 50s facing redundancy

For people who are being made redundant from life-long or long-term jobs, redundancy can be a major blow to their confidence and self-esteem.