• Wise Age and partner organisations have developed a Charter for older workers which we hope will be adopted by concerned age and employment organisations,  employer organisations, trade unions, and political parties and applied by government and employers.

• Encourage employers to retain and hire seniors, as part of an age-diverse workforce. 

• Upgrade professional skills throughout the working life for those Over 50s on the same basis as to all ages of employees. 

• Provide working conditions that adapt to the needs and benefits of seniors.

• Implement health promotion programs for older and all workers. 

• Rejuvenate careers with age-friendly measures beneficial to employers.

• Support intergenerational cooperation and knowledge transfer in the workplace. 

• Promote time-sharing expertise between seniors and other workers. 

• Promote self-employment to seniors and encourage opportunities for those over 50s and age-diverse partnerships to buy small companies. 

• Promote Active ageing in employment and flexible retirement. 

• Support full employment, liveable wage and combat exclusion for those over 50s and all groups of the workforce.

How To Promote This Charter

• Raise this issue in your organisation, especially age and employment agencies
• Contact your MP or other political representative & party, and ask that they endorse it
• Contact your trade union and ask for them to support this charter
• Contact your employer and ask them to apply these approaches 
• Contact us at contact@wiseage.org.uk for more info