Establishment of a permanent citizen’s committee to educate the employers and people of New York City to the need for increasing employment opportunities for persons 45 years and older is the principal recommendation made by the Employment Service of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies here in a report released today-on the results of its campaign to stimulate job opportunities for middle-aged and older workers conducted last Spring.
The report pointed cut that the problem “is not local, but national in scope; is not temporary, but one with permanent long range implication.” The problem has become more urgent, it continued, “because we are faced with a population that is growing older and must support itself longer; yet industry, by and large, prefers to hire younger workers and retire older ones at an age when many of the latter can still work productively.”
Other recommendations made by the agency as the result of its effort to get more jobs for the aging include: 1. An industry by industry analysis of jobs to determine which of then are appropriate for middle-aged and older workers; 2. A study into the private pension systems operated by industry with a view towards eliminating whatever barriers there may be in the employment of older workers; 3. An educational campaign among employers to make the age of industrial retirement more flexible.
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