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Labor's plan for mature age workers
08 July 2004
Labor has promised to give greater job opportunities and security to mature age workers if it wins government.
The party's $212 million policy released today, includes a commitment to:
- Establish career centres to help mature aged job seekers find work. The centres would aim to help 63,000 mature age workers by July 2007;
- Establish a Rapid Assistance Service to assist workers who become unemployed after large-scale or regional retrenchments;
- A Training Partnership Fund will be set up to encourage employers to retrain mature age workers;
- Have 2,500 new TAFE places each year by 2008 earmarked for workers over 45;
- A $2,000 learing bonus will be provided to mature age job seekers who take up an apprenticeship or traineeship in areas of skill shortage;
Labor leader Mark Latham said that the plan was designed to keep mature aged people in the workforce and help those out of the workforce back into a job.
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