Mature Age Employment Archives

The results are in – age is no barrier to academic and career success

10 November 2021

COTA Victoria’s Reach, Train and Employ project has shown how wrap-around support and an inclusive training model can translate into high student retention and successful employment outcomes, according to the project’s final evaluation report.

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Graduates beat long-term unemployment

13 August 2021

Unemployed older workers can face an uphill battle to reenter the workforce. But COTA Victoria’s Reach, Train, Employ project has hit upon a winning formula: supporting older people to retrain in a sector where the demand for employees is high.

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Age no barrier when it comes to academic success

29 July 2021

The first cohort of 31 mature aged graduates will receive their Certificate III in Individual Support (Ageing and Disability)

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Older Australians to benefit from Budget’s employment and super reforms; consultation needed on support payments, retirement income

12 May 2021

Older Australians will benefit from several measures in the Federal Budget aimed at increasing workforce participation and fixing retirement incomes, Council on the Ageing (COTA) Australia says, but support for vulnerable groups like renters is still missing and long-term solutions are needed.

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MEDIA RELEASE: JobKeeper and JobSeeker announcement welcomed, but reintroduction of the Liquid Assets Waiting Period must be dropped, and Rent Assistance raised

23 July 2020

The extension of the JobKeeper scheme and the continued additional support for people on JobSeeker have been welcomed by Council on the Ageing (COTA) Australia as essential support for mature age workers thrown into unemployment or at risk of it due to COVID-19.

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