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<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR>Re-employment tips go online <!--10 min-->
</TR><!-- headline one : end --><!-- Author --><TR><TD class="padlrt8 georgia11 darkgrey bold" colSpan=2>By Goh Chin Lian
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WHEN a manager was told he could be re-hired after retirement but as a lower-rank executive in the same department, he baulked at the idea.
Changing such thinking is part of the challenge of putting in place re-employment practices, said Mrs Olivia Tay, who handles human resource for the National Healthcare Group.
She presented her company's efforts in this area, at the launch on Wednesday of a website that serves as a one-stop information service for bosses and employees on the re-employment of older workers.
The website aims to help employers get started with putting re-hiring practices in place before a law comes into effect in 2012. That law will require them to offer jobs to workers who reach the retirement age of 62.
Workers can also find out about what re-employment entails from the website, www.re-employment.sg.
Case studies of companies that have adopted such practices, as well as age profiles of the workforce of more than 250 companies, can be found on the website.
Mr Alexander Melchers, chairman of the Tripartite Implementation Workgroup on the employability of older workers, said at the launch of the website that response to re-employment has been good among employers. 'Where before, many people were not familiar with what re-employment was all about, today, employers are now focused on how best they can get started on implementing re-employment,' he said.
</TR><!-- headline one : end --><!-- Author --><TR><TD class="padlrt8 georgia11 darkgrey bold" colSpan=2>By Goh Chin Lian
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WHEN a manager was told he could be re-hired after retirement but as a lower-rank executive in the same department, he baulked at the idea.
Changing such thinking is part of the challenge of putting in place re-employment practices, said Mrs Olivia Tay, who handles human resource for the National Healthcare Group.
She presented her company's efforts in this area, at the launch on Wednesday of a website that serves as a one-stop information service for bosses and employees on the re-employment of older workers.
The website aims to help employers get started with putting re-hiring practices in place before a law comes into effect in 2012. That law will require them to offer jobs to workers who reach the retirement age of 62.
Workers can also find out about what re-employment entails from the website, www.re-employment.sg.
Case studies of companies that have adopted such practices, as well as age profiles of the workforce of more than 250 companies, can be found on the website.
Mr Alexander Melchers, chairman of the Tripartite Implementation Workgroup on the employability of older workers, said at the launch of the website that response to re-employment has been good among employers. 'Where before, many people were not familiar with what re-employment was all about, today, employers are now focused on how best they can get started on implementing re-employment,' he said.