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Employers are ‘missing a trick’ if they fail to offer flexibility to older workers

As more than half of workers over 55 plan to work beyond the state retirement age, it is in employers interests to enable older people to stay in work for as long as possible. This is the key message from evidence given this morning to the House of Lords Public Service and Demographic Change Select Committee by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).

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