MORE than 36,000 older jobseekers have moved into work across Wales over the last five years but ministers are calling on employers to work harder to give older workers a fair deal.
The Government is launching a new online resource featuring a wealth of guidance and support for older workers in one easy-to-access place.
The new webpage “Help and Support for Older Workers” on GOV.UK signposts employees and employers to handy sources of information to help get into work.
This forms part of the DWP’s Fuller Working Lives strategy which aims to challenge and change outdated attitudes towards older workers.
The number of older workers in Wales has reached 377,000.
Jobcentre Plus has helped more than 40,000 older jobseekers to retrain and learn new skills by giving them job tasters in new sectors though initiatives such as Work Experience.
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