Actions

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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
  1. 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
 Ministry of
Education (MOE)
and Ministry of
Social Development
(MSD) supported
by the Tertiary
Education
Commission (TEC)
  1. 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
  MOE
Action Area: Preparing for, finding, and staying in work
  1. 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.
 MSD (with local and
regional support),
TEC and the Office
for Seniors (OfS)
  1. 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
 TEC and OfS
  1. 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
 MSD, Ministry
of Business,
Innovation and
Employment (MBIE)
and OfS
  1. 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
 MSD
Action Area: Supporting employers
  1. 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
  1. 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
  1. 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
 MBIE
Action Area: Planning for older workers' role in the economy and the future of work
  1. 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)
 MBIE and MSD
supported by TEC
  1. Refer the issue of the ageing workforce to the Future of
    Work Forum to include as a specific discussion topic on
    its agenda
 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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