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Promote active ageing across the life cycle and more flexible retirement ages - to enable older workers to remain in the labour market and to help those who have reached pension age combine their pension with paid work if they wish or need to. Ensure adequacy of old-age income while promoting employability of people aged 50+ - make working longer financially rewarding both for older workers without penalising those who have shorter careers - mainly women or disabled people - for valid reasons such as informal carer's breaks and ensure an adequate income in old-age to all who contributed to society through paid and unpaid work. Combat in-work poverty - apply decent work principles to ensure quality working conditions and quality jobs which in turn helps prevent poverty and exclusion and their consequences. Encourage employers to retain and to hire older workers - to value the expertise of older women and men through financial incentives for introducing innovative solutions to adapt the working environment to an ageing workforce, lower employers' costs for employing older workers, provision of mentoring or tutoring schemes etc. Provide Opportunities to upgrade professional skills of ageing workers - provide older workers with possibilities to learn new technologies and to participate in job-related training. If necessary, the working conditions and workplace should be adapted to meet the evolving health or ergonomic needs of the older worker. Rejuvenate careers by age-friendly measures - transition from full time activity towards retirement is a process and therefore should be introduced in the workplace gradually, and well in advance of one's retirement age i.e. through flexible working conditions, tailor-made training, lifelong learning or professional conversion programmes. Implement health promotion programmes - encourage longer and healthier working lives in order to raise the national Healthy Life YEars Indicator i.e. set up by the European Commission in the framework of the 1st European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing.
Support Intergenerational cooperation and knowledge transfer in the workplace - foster mutual learning and skills transfer between age and gender groups i.e. through mentoring/coaching of younger workers by their older peers and ICT training for older workers by younger age cohorts or by facilitating intergenerational entrepreneurships within family-owned business. |
2012 is the European Year for Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations. The programme is being run by Age Platform Europe. As active members Wise Owls will be running a series of projects in support and solidarity with the year long programme. Part of that programme is the endorsement of the coalition roadmap which includes Active Ageing in Employment.