Encouraging employers in Poland to hire and retain older workers

While a significant pension and welfare reform process has undoubtedly strengthened incentives to continue working at an older age, further action is still required on the demand side to ensure that those older workers who wish to work longer can do so. This chapter analyses the extent to which there are employment barriers in firms – such as age discrimination, seniority rules in wage setting, insufficient investment in training, and inappropriate employment protection rules. The evidence suggests that older workers encounter major difficulties in changing jobs or in finding a new one when unemployed while retention in their job after the age of 60 has increased.