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Oz Study Says Bosses Now Prefer to Hire People Older Than 55
The government-funded study by Monash University researchers on 600 big organisations suggests that attitudes towards older workers are changing.
Philip Taylor, the director of research and graduate studies, and his team found that during labour shortages 50 percent of public sector employers put the recruitment of mature workers at the top of their agendas.
About 40 percent of private sector bosses said they too would look to the over-55s.y contrast, less than a quarter of the employers surveyed - public and private sector - said they would recruit migrant labour to fill workforce gaps.
The research deviates sharply from studies, which have found a strong current of institutionalised ageism in workplaces is responsible for the disproportionately high level of mature-age unemployment.
"I've been involved in surveying employer attitudes since 1991 and this is the first time I've seen such a willingness to employ older workers," the Sydney Morning Herald quoted Professor Taylor as saying.
"We had expected that, on the back of the economic downturn, employers would be less favourable towards older workers. This is a significant and surprising shift," he said.
Professor Taylor said that rather than discrimination, a lack of relevant skills might be keeping mature workers out of a job.
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