Thirteen Training and learning in the workplace: can we legislate against age discriminatory practices?
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Kerry Platman
Abstract
This chapter considers an important yet neglected area within this debate — that of training and lifelong training. It reviews the recent efforts to support and promote the wider incorporation of training within the employment sphere, focusing on the range of training providers. It notes that the recently completed work (Admasachew et al, 2005) has also highlighted the lack of attention most employers give to this area of career development for the 50+ cohort. It continues with an incisive assessment of the role age legislation has on current understandings. It puts emphasis on the chapter’s statement, ‘Ageing societies need to ensure that their oldest workers have the skills and training necessary for them to participate in employment’.
Abstract
This chapter considers an important yet neglected area within this debate — that of training and lifelong training. It reviews the recent efforts to support and promote the wider incorporation of training within the employment sphere, focusing on the range of training providers. It notes that the recently completed work (Admasachew et al, 2005) has also highlighted the lack of attention most employers give to this area of career development for the 50+ cohort. It continues with an incisive assessment of the role age legislation has on current understandings. It puts emphasis on the chapter’s statement, ‘Ageing societies need to ensure that their oldest workers have the skills and training necessary for them to participate in employment’.
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents iii
- List of figures and tables v
- List of contributors vi
- Introduction 1
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Key areas of social policy
- Personal social services: developments in adult social care 15
- Creating a patient-led NHS: empowering ‘consumers’ or shrinking the state? 33
- A ‘pivotal moment’? Education policy in England, 2005 49
- Strategic pragmatism? The state of British housing policy 65
- Social security policies in 2005 83
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Health and well-being
- More than a matter of choice? Consumerism and the modernisation of health care 101
- Being well and well-being: the value of community and professional concepts in understanding positive health 121
- Happiness and social policy: barking up the right tree in the wrong neck of the woods 145
- Using health and subjective wellbeing for quality of life measurement: a review 165
- Community well-being strategy and the legacies of new institutionalism and New Public Management in third way New Zealand 193
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Ageing and employment
- Extending working life: problems and prospects for social and public policy 221
- Age discrimination in history 249
- Training and learning in the workplace: can we legislate against age discriminatory practices? 269
- Ageing and employment: looking back, looking forward 293
- Index 313
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents iii
- List of figures and tables v
- List of contributors vi
- Introduction 1
-
Key areas of social policy
- Personal social services: developments in adult social care 15
- Creating a patient-led NHS: empowering ‘consumers’ or shrinking the state? 33
- A ‘pivotal moment’? Education policy in England, 2005 49
- Strategic pragmatism? The state of British housing policy 65
- Social security policies in 2005 83
-
Health and well-being
- More than a matter of choice? Consumerism and the modernisation of health care 101
- Being well and well-being: the value of community and professional concepts in understanding positive health 121
- Happiness and social policy: barking up the right tree in the wrong neck of the woods 145
- Using health and subjective wellbeing for quality of life measurement: a review 165
- Community well-being strategy and the legacies of new institutionalism and New Public Management in third way New Zealand 193
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Ageing and employment
- Extending working life: problems and prospects for social and public policy 221
- Age discrimination in history 249
- Training and learning in the workplace: can we legislate against age discriminatory practices? 269
- Ageing and employment: looking back, looking forward 293
- Index 313
