article_snippet.sent: A generation of older workers are risking redundancy and long-term unemployment because of poor technology skills, it is claimed.
article_snippet.sent: Experts said training was ‘heavily geared’ towards young people, meaning many older workers were left behind in the workplace.
article_snippet.sent: This left many older workers vulnerable when companies start ‘shedding’ jobs.
article_snippet.sent: Given rapid economic and technological changes, many traditional jobs are less secure than in the past and older workers are increasingly facing the threat of redundancy.
article_snippet.sent: ’s ageing population is growing and the increased retirement age means people are working for longer.
article_snippet.sent: ‘The challenge is therefore to ensure people can continue to participate in the labour market at the later stage of people working lives.’
article_snippet.sent: According to the Office for National Statistics, workers aged 55 and over are less likely to be unemployed than younger workers.
article_snippet.sent: But older unemployed people are more likely to have been out of work for 12 months or longer, suggesting older unemployed people find it harder to find a new job if older unemployed people do find older unemployed people out of work.
article_snippet.sent: The accountancy body said older men were particularly vulnerable to job losses in the declining mining, agriculture and manufacturing industries, while women were heavily over-represented in the public sector so could face risks from cuts to civil servants.
highlights_snippet.sent: Experts say older workers are left behind in workplace because of training .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: This left older workers vulnerable when companies start ‘shedding’ jobs, companies claim .
  