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Bibliography and sources of further information

Websites with further information on age management initiatives

EQUAL programme (information and dissemination of findings of the programme): http://europa.eu/employment_soical/equal/index_en.cfm

European Agency for Safety and Health at work: http://osha.europa.eu

European Network for Workplace Health Promotion: www.enwhp.org/index.php?id=4

European Older People’s Platform: www.age-platform.org

European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions: www.eurofound.europa.eu

Other relevant organisations

EURELECTRIC http://www.eurelectric.org

EPSU www.epsu.org

EMCEF www.emcef.org

European Observatory on Industrial Relations http://www.eiro.eurofound.eu.int

European Commission publications on demographic ageing

European Commission (2007) Employment in Europe

http://ec.europa.eu/employment_social/employment_analysis/employ_2007_en.htm

European Commission (2006) Ageing and employment: Identification of good practice to increase job opportunities and maintain older workers in employment http://ec.europa.eu/employment_social/news/2006/sept/ageingreport_en.pdf

European Commission (2005) Confronting Demographic Change: A new solidarity between the generations, Green Paper

http://ec.europa.eu/employment_social/social_situation/green_paper_en.html

Council Decision of 12 July 2005 on Guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States (2005/600/EC http://europa.eu/scadplus/leg/en/cha/c11323.htm )

European Commission (2002) Increasing labour force participation and promoting active ageing http://ec.europa.eu/employment_social/news/2002/feb/com_2002_9_en.pdf

Other relevant reading material

Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and the Trades Union Congress (TUC) (2007) Managing age: A guide to good employment practice: http://www.tuc.org.uk/extras/managingage.pdf

Leibold M and Sven Voelpel (2006) Managing the Aging Workforce: Challenges and Solutions. Wiley

Naegele G and A Walker (2000) Ageing in Employment: A European code of good practice, Eurolink Age: Brussels

Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (2006) Live longer, work longer, OECD: Paris

World Health Organisation (2001) Active Ageing, World Health Organisation: Geneva

ETUC (2006) Challenging Times: Innovative ways of organising working time: the role of trade unions: http://www.etuc.org/IMG/pdf/Challenging_Times_brochure_EN-2.pdf

CAWA project – Creative Approaches to Workforce Ageing – information and case study information available at: http://www.olderworkers.eu

Ecotec (2006) Nevala, A-M, Promoting active ageing policies in the hospital sector, ECOTEC for EPSU and HOSPEEM

Warwick Institute for Employment Research (2006) Ageing and employment: identification of good practice to increase job opportunities and maintain older workers in employment, University of Warwick and Economix Research and Consulting

European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions

The European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions has wealth of information on demographic ageing. This includes reports on:

• Working conditions of an ageing workforce (2008) (analysis of the 2005 European Working Conditions survey)
•  Age and employment in the new Member States (2006)
•  Employment initiatives for an ageing workforce in the EU15 (2006)
•  A guide to good practice in age management (2006)
•  Combating age barriers in emloyment (1997)
•  Information on different country approaches and case studies on age management can be found on the European Foundation’s web site at: www.eurofound.europa.eu/areas/populationandsociety/ageingworkforce.htm

Contact details for company case studies

EON-Energie, Germany: Alexander Tessner Alexander.Tessner@eon-energie.com

Axpo, Switzerland: Martin Luethy,  Martin.Luethy@axpo.ch

Agder Energi, Norway: Arild Trydal Arild.Trydal@ae.no

RWE, Germany: Dirk Wentzel Dirk.Wentzel@rwe.com

ČEZ group, Czech Republic: Zuzana Krejcirikova Zuzana.krejcirikova@cez.cz

Suez Group, France: Bernard Parmantier bernard.parmantier@suez.com

Endesa Spain: Arantxa Balsón Yarritu, Diversity Manager, arantxabalson@endessa.es

Statkraft Norway: Erik Norberg, Human Resources Director. erik.norberg@statkraft.com

UNISON Water@Work and the initiative on women’s health in the workplace: Steve Bloomfield s.bloomfield@unison.co.uk