"Don't neglect older workers", NIACE urges Wednesday, April 22, 2009 - 16:56

Responding to today's Budget, NIACE Principal Advocacy Officer, Alastair Thomson, said,

"NIACE welcomes the increased public investment to help jobless people back into work but questions why younger people under 25 are offered a guarantee of a job or training place while older people are not."

"In earlier recessions people over 50 were among the hardest hit, with many destined never to work again."

"The missed opportunity to target specific support for older workers is all the more short-sighted given the country's changing demographic profile.

"Rather than marginalising older workers, the UK needs to help them extend and update their skills and extend their working lives flexibly beyond conventional retirement ages."

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