Reply to post: @ Pen-y-gors Re:".....by letting people have several careers during those years...."

@ Pen-y-gors Re:".....by letting people have several careers during those years...."

Indeed Pen-y-gors but this comes back to my original point. How will people have such careers if employers are not interested in anyone past a certain age? The only way we can tackle this (and it is a crucial issue for society) is to outlaw age discrimination explicitly. We cannot cope with these challenges if employers continue with their foul attitudes towards older workers. That they are shooting themselves and society in the foot at one and the same time is something that they appear to be blissfully ignorant of. We cannot continue in this way if we are going to tackle these issues. The ever increasing numbers of older workers who could work, if given the chance, who society cannot in the long term support on pensions at the age concerned present an economic challenge that we have to tackle. The reality is that we have to take the employers warmly by the throat and make it clear that they do not have a choice. Otherwise the options are terrifying for both society itself and anyone over a "certain age".