Implement Strategies to Employ, Retain and Re-employ Older Employees (HR-RS-406-E-1)

Course details

Course Objectives

This course addresses the skills and knowledge required to implement employment, retention and re-employment strategies for an ageing workforce. It covers assessing requirements for older employees and how these can be implemented to support employment and retention of this demographic group.

Course Outline

• Implement work design strategies for older employees
• Identify jobs and define job scope that are suitable for older employees
• Develop flexible work arrangements and facilitate job re-design to accommodate older employees’ requirements
• Support older employees to adapt to new job roles and work flow/processes
• Implement employment strategies for older employees
• Identify opportunities of creating an age-friendly workplace
• Implement recruitment strategies which support workplace enhancements made to suit older employees
• Review and refine recruitment practices to support the recruitment of older employees
• Communicate organization policies on older employees externally to promote the organization as an employer choice
• Implement retention and re-employment strategies for older employees
• Review and implement human resource policy modification to support retention of older employees
• Educate relevant employees in organization’s employment strategies for older employees
• Identify eligible older employees for re-employment using a structured process
• Engage eligible older employees for re-employment within a recommended time frame
• Facilitate re-employment job arrangements for old employees
• Adjust employment contract to meet the needs of the organization and the older employees to be re-employed