Sentences with phrase «retain older workers»

Businesses look at ways to retain older workers and help them keep their skills relevant.

With 19 % of the construction workforce set to retire in the next five to ten years, the report finds that employers need to overcome stereotypes and repurpose, where necessary, job descriptions to attract and, most importantly, retain older workers.

But flex policies for older workers can make sound economic sense when you consider all the costs related to not retaining older workers, including recruitment, training and development of their replacements, says Barbara Jaworski, chief executive officer of the Workplace Institute, which helps organizations develop older - workforce strategies.

RetirementJobs.com, which ranks employers according to how friendly they are to hiring older workers, says that Robert Half International (RHI: 26.00, +0.61, +2.40 %), Travelers Insurance (TRV: 52.10, +0.11, +0.21 %), FreshMarket and Staples (SPLS: 20.92, +0.27, +1.30 %) all have good records of hiring and retaining older workers.

Not exact matches

In Latin America, such persons have included those who tell of ancient Mayan greatness, old grandmothers with their colorful needlework and health - care workers who retain wisdom about the use of traditional herbs and medicines.

When the author recalls the long gallery of persons whom, in the course of this inquiry, he has come to know with the impetuous but temporary intimacy of the stranger — sharecroppers and plantation owners, workers and employers, merchants and bankers, intellectuals, preachers, organization leaders, political bosses, gangsters, black and white, men and women, young and old, Southerners and Northerners — the general observation retained is the following: Behind all outward dissimilarities, behind their contradictory valuations, rationalizations, vested interests, group allegiances and animosities, behind fears and defense constructions, behind the role they play in life and the mask they wear, people are all much alike on a fundamental level And they are all good people.

The finalists highlighted in their applications some of the Age Smart practices they are using to recruit, retain and engage older worker, including:

in the face of rising productivity and affluence, older workers find themselves disadvantaged in their efforts to retain employment, and especially to regain employment when displaced from jobs; the setting of arbitrary age limits regardless of potential for job performance has become a common practice, and certain otherwise desirable practices may work to the disadvantage of older persons; the incidence of unemployment, especially long - term unemployment with resultant deterioration of skill, morale, and employer acceptability is, relative to the younger ages, high among older workers; their numbers are great and growing; and their employment problems grave; the existence in industries affecting commerce, of arbitrary discrimination in employment because of age, burdens commerce and the free flow of goods in commerce.

In industries already facing labor and skills shortages, forward - thinking companies are recruiting, retaining, and developing flexible work - time arrangements and / or phased retirement plans for these workers (55 years of age or older), many of whom have skills that are difficult to replace.