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Five top tips to promote an age-diverse workforce
How employers can create a workplace that is inclusive to workers of all ages to give them a competitive advantage in recruitment and retention.
Ageing workforce: challenges for staff and employers
How employers can identify and address the challenges of an ageing workforce.
Advantages of employing and retaining older workers
Key benefits that employing and retaining older workers can bring to businesses.
Employment rights of older workers
How employers can meet the legal rights of older workers including retirement age, age discrimination, and caring for dependants including grandchildren and parents.
Retain and retrain older workers
How employers can make efforts to retain staff to secure key skills and experience and how retraining older workers may be beneficial.
Recruiting older workers
How employers can recruit fairly and avoid age discrimination when taking on new staff including older workers.
Write a job description and person specification
Details that you should include in job descriptions and person specifications when recruiting new staff.
Advertise your job vacancy
Where and how to advertise your job vacancy to maximise your chances of getting the right person to work for you.
Using employment agencies to find staff
The information you should provide to an employment agency when recruiting new staff.
How to write a good job advert
Tips for employers on what to include in an effective job advertisement.
Carrying out the job interview
How to conduct a fair job interview and keep appropriate records of the interview process.
Importing and exporting fresh fruit and vegetables
Rules for importing, exporting and moving fresh fruit and vegetables to, from and around the UK.
Conducting industrial action ballots
How a union must conduct a ballot before it can call for official industrial action.
Importing or moving live animals, germinal products, animal by-products and high risk food and feed not of animal origin
What documents and checks do you need to notify the authorities for live animals, animal products and high risk food or feed not of animal origin.
Importing and exporting organic food
Overview of the rules for importing and exporting organic food.
Create a goods movement reference
Get a goods movement reference to move goods through locations which use the Goods Vehicle Movement Service.
Application forms vs CVs in the recruitment process
Employers can weigh up the options for recruiting new staff either by requesting CVs or using job application forms.
Shortlist and invite candidates to interview
How to draw up a shortlist of candidates for interview when recruiting new staff.
Using tests in the recruitment process
The various tests employers can use in the recruitment process to help you choose the right candidate.
Pensions and retirement
Help your employees receive the appropriate state pension or workplace pension to which they are entitled.