How can we ensure intergenerational fairness in the workplace? Lords to ask experts
The House of Lords Committee on Intergenerational Fairness will next week take evidence from experts on work and skills as its inquiry focuses on intergenerational fairness in the workplace. How can we ensure that younger workers have the skills they need to progress and older workers the skills they need to remain productive for longer?
The sessions will start at 11:40am on Tuesday 9 October in Committee Room 4A of the House of Lords. Giving evidence to the Committee will be:
11:40
- Simon Kelleher, Head of Education, Skills Commission/Policy Connect
- Julian Gravatt, Deputy Chief Executive, Association of Colleges
- Professor Andrew Scott, London Business School and All Souls College, Oxford
12:30
- Dr Anna Dixon, Chief Executive, Centre for Ageing Better
- Dr Brian Beach, Senior Research Fellow, International Longevity Centre-UK
- Professor Jacqueline O'Reilly, University of Kent
In the first session the Committee will focus on deficiencies in current skills policy and whether some age groups are more poorly supported than others, the decline in in-work training over recent years and how to address it, and the extent to which skills shortages are contributing to slow pay progression for younger workers.
The second session will focus more on how government and employers can support longer working lives, how flexible working can contribute to older people working longer and how an increase in the number of older workers would affect young people in the workplace.
