The unions are also highlighting the serious
workplace and
social problems that will accompany the enforced longer working age for public sector workers, particularly those with strenuous or demanding jobs like construction workers, cleaners, nurses, paramedics and teachers, including an increasingly frail workforce and the
exclusion of younger workers from the labour market.
It addresses the question of whether, as some observers have suggested, women are simply more sensitive to such
exclusion: if they are «relational by nature» and respond more strongly than men to being shut out of
social interaction in the
workplace.