Challenges of Active Ageing: Equality Law and the Workplace

By Simonetta Manfredi

Part 1 - The Legal Framework.- Chapter 1 The CJEU and age discrimination: addressing the double bind for age equality (Professor Frank Hendrickx).- Chapter 2 A freedom under supervision - the EU Court and compulsory retirement age (Alvaro Oliveira).- Part 2 - Deregulation of retirement.- Chapter 3 Retirement and the pension crisis (Jo Grady).- Chapter 4 Meeting the challenges of active ageing in the UK: Is the abolition of mandatory retirement the answer? A case study of the approach of retirement in the UK (Simonetta Manfredi and Lucy Vickers).- Part 3 - The challenges of extending working lives.- Chapter 5 Intersectionality of age and gender in labour law (Jenny Julen Votinius).- Chapter 6 Strategic challenges for social partners - a case study on the Italian experience (Luciana Guaglianone and Fabio Ravelli).- Chapter 7 Older workers in the nursing profession: Will they stay or will they go? (Nicola Johnson and Simonetta Manfredi).- Chapter 8 Emerging options for extending working lives: results of a Delphi study (Alysia Blackham).- Part 4 - Older Workers perspectives on extending working lives.- Chapter 9 Extended working lives: what do older employees want? (Wendy Loretto).- Chapter 10 Work and careers: perspectives from knowledge workers aged 48-58 (Karen Handley and Birgit den Outer).- Chapter 11 Function, flexibility and responsibility - differences in former professional jobs and post-retirement activities among retirees in Germany (Leena Pundt, Jurgen Dell, Kenneth S Shultz and Ulrike Fasbender).- Part 5 - Extending Working lives in practice.- Chapter 12 Managing older workers in a local authority: The case of Oxford City Council (Bob Price).- Chapter 13 What scope for an Employer justified retirement age? A view from practice (Saphieh Ashtiany).- Chapter 14 Extending working lives - a trade union perspective (Sally Brett).- Chapter 15 'Changing Step': The transition from the Regular Army to civilian life and work (Vincent Connelly).- Bibliography.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137532491
• ISBN13: 9781137532497
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 345 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 8.7"