1.   A recent report showed how older workers bear the brunt of economic recession.

2.   Age discrimination disadvantages older workers.

3.   It consistently disadvantages older workers, young people, and women returning to work.

4.   Older workers also experience more direct forms of discrimination.

5.   Older workers were a highly vulnerable section of the work-force, and could offer little resistance to wage cuts.

6.   Second, pressure on older workers to leave the workforce early May continue despite the Decline in the number of young workers.

7.   So these older workers have been immune to big changes in work-related phenomena.

8.   So, the first requirement is that older workers should be included in the drive for a more skilled workforce.

9.   The evidence is of both positive and negative reactions to the older worker as employee and co-worker.

10.   Thus for large numbers of older workers, poverty is experienced to the official pension ages.