June 12, 2013
Real demographic challenge as number of older workers tops one million
The latest employment figures published today by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show an interesting demographic trend. Beneath the rather unexceptional news that employment rose by 24,000 and unemployment fell by 5,000 in the three months to April, is what Jim Hillage, Director of Research at the Institute for Employment Studies (IES) describes as “underlying structural changes in the labour market”. The number of employed people over 65 in the UK has now reached more than a million (1,003,000), the highest since records began in 1971. This means that almost one in ten of over-65s are now in work.
July 9, 2013
BIFM partnership with DWP may prove an ill-advised and short-lived union
by Simon Heath • Comment, Facilities management
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