EU: gas social partners about to develop a toolkit to deal with demographic ageing and the skills shortage

Plan on age management. Gas social partners met on Monday, October 5 to work on the final study of their “Demographic Change and Competencies” project. The document will be presented as a conference on November 4 (see program attached). Eurogas, the European Public Services Union (EPSU) and the European Mine, Chemical and Energy Workers’ Federation (EMCEF) want to develop a 12-step plan on age management. Written by a British research center, the study includes a series of recommendations, but the social partners won’t necessarily use them all.
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c Services Union (EPSU) and the European Mine, Chemical and Energy Workers’ Federation (EMCEF) want to develop a 12-step plan on age management. Written by a British research center, the study includes a series of recommendations, but the social partners won’t necessarily use them all.


Prolonging retirement age. Thus, about the possibility to prolong retirement age, on a voluntary and individual basis, the EPSU said no, considering that keeping older workers will block younger workers entering t

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