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Older Workers - an inconvenient truth?
This piece by Alan Beazley, our policy officer, provides employers with a summary of the key issues on the inconvenient truth about our ageing society and what they could consider to be their role in achieving viable solutions in the workplace. November 2008 |
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The gap in the workplace Generation: Y Addressing the emerging issues employers are facing when trying to engage with Generation Y, bringing together the key findings from our research and outlines practical suggestions and steps employers can take to connect with younger people. June 2008 |
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The end of the line for retirement ages The business case for managing without a retirement age. July 2007 |
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Mind your language - a guide to getting recruitment right
The EFA has produced a guide, sponsored by Procter & Gamble, to getting recruitment right. This will help employers recruit the right people and comply with the age discrimination laws. March 2007 |
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EFA's age bias free application form Getting recruitment right is one of the biggest challenges for any employer. Now age discrimination laws are in place, it’s a high risk area. To help employers deliver age neutral recruitment practice the EFA has developed a bias free application form. This form works not only for age, but will also support good practice in other areas of equality. March 2007 |
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| Being Age Aware - training materials The EFA has produced a portfolio of materials designed to support employers in raising awareness of the Age Regulations. The materials include a series of factsheets and exercises to help employees understand ageism and what the new age discrimination laws will mean to them. July 2006 The materials are only available to members of the EFA. |  |
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The Insider Guide to Age Laws The EFA's guide has been written to help employers understand the full impact of the Age Regulations on all aspects of employment policy and practice. The guide includes as much relevant case law as possible with 'real-life' scenarios, so that employers can easily recognise areas of risk, and check lists. May 2006 The guide is only available to members of the EFA. |
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The guide is also available to download in following sections: EFA Insider Guide - Foreword (81K) EFA Insider Guide - Introduction (22K) What you need to know (66K) Justifying age discrimination (38K) When people join you (76K) Managing people while they are with you (62K) Rewarding people while they are with you (81K) When people leave you (81K) EFA Insider Guide - Contacts (24K) Retirement Process (21K) Weblinks (39K) |
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Retirement Process Model Letters The EFA have produced some model letters to assist employers in delivering the Retirement Process. May 2006 |
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The Insider Guide to Age Laws - Summary A summary of the Insider Guide to Age Laws to help employers understand the full impact of the Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006. May 2006 |
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Defining Ageism In order to better understand ageist attitudes the EFA presented a range of scenarios to over a thousand people to establish tolerance levels over pay, management styles and team fit. Respondents were split down the middle on all the critical issues, highlighting the difficulty employers will face in tackling ageism. July 2006 |
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Attitude Not Age Attitude not Age reveals that there are four different types of worker whose responses to questions about work, working for longer, expectation of retirement and pension provision vary. By understanding what motivates people at work, employers can not only improve people's working lives but may also be able to influence people's retirement decisions. This report suggests the current 'one-size-fits-all' approach by the Government and employers to tackle working for longer and retirement is ineffective. September 2005 |
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Age at work: the definitive guide to the UK's workforce Age at work is a decade by decade analysis of people's experiences, motivations and attitudes towards age and work. The findings are based on focus groups, in-depth and telephone interviews among nearly 1700 people and cross referenced with the Labour Force Survey. This is an invaluable resource for employers who need to understand their workforce. February 2005 |
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Avoiding the Age Trap - Factsheet Does employment history really help you to identify the right candidates or does it catch you in an age trap? This factsheet highlights some of the issues explored in the EFA's guide to recruitment, and demonstrates the EFA's age bias free application form. September 2004 |
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Avoiding the Age Trap - Guide to age bias free recruitment As you prepare for age discrimination laws, this guide will help you discover where your current recruitment policies and practices may be biased against certain age groups. Avoiding the Age Trap will also suggest steps that you can take to ensure recruitment in your organisation is fair and more effective. September 2004 |
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EFA One Step Ahead This comprehensive toolkit provides a framework for review of all employment policies and practices to identify age discrimination. The Toolkit contains 20 checklists, covering Absence Management to Training, designed to help you ensure employment decisions are based on ability not age. April 2004 |
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One Step at a Time - preparing your business for age laws A factsheet introducing a step by step approach to preparing for age laws, including 10 questions to help you identify where to start. March 2004 |
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Flexible retirement - A snapshot of large employers' initiatives Summary of research into the introduction of flexible retirement policies within large organisations, including 20 case studies. June 2002 Click here to download the PDF (98K). The following archived reports are available for members to download. Click here to sign in. Please contact us if you are not a member or if there is a report which you cannot find. Generation Flex What Shape Success? Complacency is not an option EFA Magazine: Working Age - Issue 7 Working Age - Issue 6 Working Age - Issue 5 Working Age - Issue 4 Working Age - Issue 3 Working Age - Issue 2 Working Age - Issue 1 Age - too costly to ignore (4MB) Flexible Retirement (272KB) Ageism and IT (21KB) Releasing Potential - younger workers and ageism (78KB) Typewriters to Teamworking - ageism and secretaries (87KB) The Glass Precipice - employability for a mixed-age workforce (284KB) A Profits Warning - the macroeconomic costs of ageism (315KB) The Modernisation of Retirement (134KB) |
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