Business and Labour Market News
- 16 July 2010, 4:10pm
A new report from ICT union the Australian Computer Society has slammed the ICT industry and recruitment companies for widespread age discrimination, and called for a voluntary code to tackle the issue.
The Improving Age Diversity in the ICT Workforce report was produced by the Society's Ageism Task Force, with assistance from ITCRA, the Australian Industry Group, Monash University and others.
The Task Force was established on the back of successive ACS surveys that showed the vast majority of unemployed ICT professionals were aged 45 or over.
- 29 June 2010
By the year 2050 one in four Australians will be over 65, and there will be double the amount of 80-plus Australians in the workforce than there are now. Governments across the globe are gearing up for an aging population, but is their concern shared – or even recognised – by the private sector?
During a recent visit to Australia, World Health Organisation life cycle expert John Beard stressed the need for organisations need to recognise an impending shortage of younger workers and start planning for the aging population boom.
- 27 May 2010 4:09pm
Employers can and will use social media to assess candidates, says a workplace law expert, but if a company decides not to hire someone based on information from an online profile, it's common sense not to tell this to the applicant.
Nicholas Duggal, special counsel on employment and industrial relations for TressCox Layers, told the Australasian Talent Conference that employers and recruiters were using social media websites every day to find out more about individual job seekers.