Employment disputes to rise with poor human resource policies?

Published on 11 Aug 2010 under category: legal

Employment disputes could increase in the workplace unless employers learn about how to manage poor performance from retired workers.
The coalition announced last month that the default retirement age would be abolished from 2011.
Human resource firm Croner claims to have seen a 56 per cent rise in enquiries from employers about how to deal with the new retirement policies.
Liz Iles, senior consultant at the firm, said that many managers were unwilling to address concerns about older workers' performances, because the topic is so sensitive.
Helen Barnes, principal research fellow at the Institute for Employment Studies, said: "Sometimes, the organisations [that are concerned] are those that don't do performance management very well.
"So, historically, if they've had someone whose performance hasn't been that great but who has been there a long time and was coming up to retirement, they have retired out their problems."
Firms could find themselves embroiled in more employment tribunals and cases of wrongful dismissal unless they devise new human resources policies to deal with workers.

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