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These actions will support older workers who want to work or need to have sustainable employment that fulfils their needs and aspirations and contributes to their overall wellbeing.
This action plan’s focus is on older people at risk of poor labour market outcomes. Many of the actions will support older workers who face compounding barriers in the labour market, including Māori, women, Pacific people, disabled people, former refugees, recent migrants and ethnic communities.
Action |
Agency/Agencies |
Action Area: Training, upskilling and educating |
- Research and assess the needs of older workers for
training, upskilling and vocational education, and the barriers to access (including appropriateness and availability).
Based on the outcomes of this work, provide advice on how to increase older workers' uptake of training, upskilling and vocational education
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Ministry of Education (MOE) and Ministry of Social Development (MSD) supported by the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) |
- Report annually how many older workers have enrolled
in and completed courses with government-funded vocational education providers and what they trained in (in 5-year age brackets for those over age 45), and by gender and ethnicity
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MOE |
Action Area: Preparing for, finding, and staying in work |
- Actively engage with older workers and make sure they
can access information that will help them identify training options, prepare for work, find work and stay in work. Make sure that this work is promoted widely.
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MSD (with local and regional support), TEC and the Office for Seniors (OfS) |
- Review relevant career products to make sure that
older workers are visible and their context reflects the diversity of older workers, is useful and relevant to them and raises awareness of study and training options
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TEC and OfS |
- Make sure that the needs of older workers and the
barriers they face to finding work and staying employed are fully considered and addressed in:
▷ the ongoing development of employment services
▷ the design of the proposed New Zealand Income Insurance Scheme
▷ the review of active labour market programmes.
Make sure that the final products from this work are accessible and well promoted, potentially through a targeted awareness campaign
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MSD, Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) and OfS |
- Report on how many older workers engaged with
government-funded employment services and programmes. Where possible, report this by age (in 5-year age brackets from the age of 45), gender and ethnicity
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MSD |
Action Area: Supporting employers |
- Review the Mature workers toolkit to ensure that it
continues to provide employers with practical support to hire, develop and retain older workers. Make sure that the toolkit is promoted widely
|
MBIE and OfS |
- Research incentives and barriers for employers in
providing more opportunities for older workers to benefit from flexible work arrangements. Prioritise groups (in alignment with other employment action plans): Māori, women, Pacific people, disabled people, former refugees, recent migrants and ethnic communities.
|
MBIE |
- Research opportunities and incentives for employers
to provide greater opportunities for older workers to participate in training in the workplace. Prioritise groups (in alignment with other employment action plans): Māori, women, Pacific people, disabled people, former refugees, recent migrants and ethnic communities
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MBIE |
Action Area: Planning for older workers' role in the economy and the future of work |
- Improve understanding across industry groupings and
sectors of the effects and opportunities of an ageing workforce. Do this in collaboration with relevant key stakeholders (such as iwi/hapū and Māori organisations, Regional Skills Leadership Groups, Workforce Development Councils, employers and unions)
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MBIE and MSD supported by TEC |
- Refer the issue of the ageing workforce to the Future of
Work Forum to include as a specific discussion topic on its agenda
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MBIE and OfS |
The next section provides further details of how actions 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 10 will be implemented.
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