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Increasing the value of age: guidance in employers’ age management strategies

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Organisation Background and aim of the strategy Productivity Culture Knowledge Retirement
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Crédit Industriel et The strategy was first developed to comply with legal developments and with their X
Commercial (CIC) consequences. In particular, the accord seniors approach of the CIC has two main
objectives: planning the latter part of an employees’ career and the anticipation of
retirement; and transmission of seniors’ experience, skills and methods to younger
employees.
Groupama The goal of Groupama d’Oc was to shift the average retirement age of its employees back X
towards age 60, as required by French laws. The overall objective is to manage better the
latter stages of a career while anticipating future retirements.
Rossimoda Several factors have led to insufficient skills’ reproduction which does not match the X
industrial district’s skill needs, jeopardising the long-term sustainability of the district. One
consequence is the widespread practice of workers who continue to work after their
retirement age, usually at 53-55 years. The strategy implemented is aimed at the
formalisation of existing job-related knowledge and the transfer of these specific skills and
job-related tacit knowledge.
Glual The overall objective of the strategy is to ensure that the company keeps experienced X
workers’ knowledge within the organisation. The idea is that the company does not lose all
the knowledge, experience, etc., that qualified experts have accumulated during the long
period they have worked for the company.
Firefighting The main reason why the approach was developed lies in the hard and strenuous working X
Service of conditions that firemen experience and the physical limitations experienced by workers as
Zaragoza they become older. The organisation has an increasing number of posts in the auxiliary
services section, and it is more convenient to cover these posts with workers who have
health/physical limitations.
Source: Authors, based on Cedefop (2015).

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