Fair Work Convention’s Response to: Exploration of the pay and career progression experiences of women aged over 50 in Scotland

Summary

In summary, the Fair Work Convention calls for:

• Effective voice in all workplaces that enables workers' voice – and especially the voices of those often overlooked, such as women over 50 – to be heard and to inform decisions;
• Equality profiling and monitoring/analysis by age;
• Tailored support and training for women over 50, which meets learning preferences (e.g. in areas of use of technology and application/recruitment processes);
• Improved policy and practices around:
  • Tailoring Gender Pay Gap interventions to different ages;
  • Increasing opportunities for part-time work, home working and other forms of flexible work;
  • Improving transparency of pay and grading structures;
  • Adopting more age-inclusive recruitment practices;
  • Initiating and facilitating conversations about retirement;
  • Implementing a Menopause Policy and promoting conversations about the menopause;
  • Intergenerational respect in the workplace.