Labor Department Focuses Attention on Older Workers; Training, Job-Placement Program for Seniors Gets Spotlight.Business Editors/Government Writers WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 24, 2003 The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a campaign to focus attention on issues relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc older workers and raise awareness of a federally funded program designed to help meet the special needs that many of them face. The campaign kicks off during National Employ Older Workers Week, Sept. 21-27. "The fact that the American population is aging has been well-documented, but the impact of that phenomenon on the workplace is just now starting to get attention," said Emily Stover stover stalks of maize plants from which mature corn cobs have been harvested as grain, or grain sorghum plants from which heads have also been removed. The stover is usually fed by turning the cattle into the field and is subject to fungal infection, sometimes causing mycotoxicosis. DeRocco, assistant secretary of labor for employment and training. While large numbers of "baby boomers See generation X. " will retire in the near future, many older workers will need to continue working. This employee contingent can become a major resource in countering predicted labor shortages A Labor shortage is an economic condition in which there are insufficient qualified candidates (employees) to fill the market-place demands for employment at any price. This condition is sometimes referred to by Economists as "an insufficiency in the labor force. into the 21st century. The Labor Department's Employment and Training Administration is working to match employer needs with qualified older workers, many of whom are low-income Americans age 55 and above. For more than 30 years, the Years, The the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time Department's Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP SCSEP Senior Community Service Employment Program (American Association of Retired Persons) ) has served the training and job placement needs of older workers by working in partnership with national organizations and state and local agencies that provide services to senior constituencies. SCSEP participants, whose incomes must be no more than 125 percent of the poverty level, receive training and assistance in finding a job. In many cases, those jobs are subsidized sub·si·dize tr.v. sub·si·dized, sub·si·diz·ing, sub·si·diz·es 1. To assist or support with a subsidy. 2. To secure the assistance of by granting a subsidy. positions at non-profit organizations A non-profit organization (abbreviated "NPO", also "non-profit" or "not-for-profit") is a legally constituted organization whose primary objective is to support or to actively engage in activities of public or private interest without any commercial or monetary profit purposes. and agencies, such as local libraries and museums. A new initiative by the Department of Labor, however, seeks to place an increasing number of participants in unsubsidized private-sector jobs. "The department's program for seniors has thousands of success stories across the country, and we want to build on that success and help even more workers. One way we plan to expand these efforts, is to raise awareness among private-sector employers that the program exists and to connect them with older workers who can meet their workplace needs and provide jobs for those who want them," DeRocco said. SCSEP has helped thousands of people enter the job market each year since its inception as part of the Older Americans Act of 1965. This year the Department of Labor expanded the number of national grantees to 13, which received a total of $342 million, and increased the goal for unsubsidized private-sector placements to 37 percent. |
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