Category: Employment

  • Unfilled job vacancies – are the over ‘50s the only answer?

    Unfilled job vacancies – are the over ‘50s the only answer?

    Paul Gutherson of NDTi has been doing a little bit of digging around to try and get underneath the headlines screaming at us that there are approximately 1.3 million unfilled job vacancies… and that this is all down to people over the age of 50 rushing to retire. Get the “economically inactive over 50s” back…

  • Why stamping out age unconscious bias in the workplace is vital

    Why stamping out age unconscious bias in the workplace is vital

    By Steve Butler, CEO at Punter Southall Aspire The findings from a YouGov poll on age discrimination in the workplace, commissioned by the Centre for Ageing Better, revealed that two-fifths of more than 1,100 employees over the age of 50 think their age would put them at a disadvantage when applying for a job, and…