Over-50s in England ‘prematurely shuffled out of labour market’

A decade-long rise in the number of over-50s in employment in England has stalled, prompting concerns that older people are being “prematurely shuffled out of the labour market”.on the economic labour market status of individuals aged 50 and over show that a rise in employment among the group has halted in England, with the exception of the east of England, where there was a fall in the employment rate among 50- to 64-year-olds of 3.4 percentage points.

You could not read a government statistic if your life depended on it 😉

My 51 yr old husband was made redundant due to Covid factors in July. He applied for an average of 10 jobs a day for weeks. Finally found work. But with a French company looking to expand into the U.K. Not a single opportunity for him with U.K. companies already established.

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