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Top tips for managing capability in older workers

Before the default retirement age was abolished, employers could either use retirement as an excuse to dismiss underperforming employees, or could avoid addressing performance concerns in older employees on the grounds that they would be retiring soon anyway. Now that neither of those are an

Side-stepping the landmines to make the most of older workers

There has been much in the media recently about the benefits of employing young people, from the Youth Employment Scheme to apprenticeships and internships, but with an ageing population and fewer young people joining the labour market there is a lot the older worker has