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The Experience Pays Awareness Strategy is a Queensland Government initiative that aims to encourage employers to recruit, retrain and retain mature-age workers.
Despite an ageing workforce and forecasted skills shortages employers are still overlooking a large group of potential employees – workers aged 45 years and over.
However, there are some employers out there who are already benefiting from the skills, experience and reliability their older workers bring to their businesses.
Here are a few employers leading by example when it comes to being an age-friendly employer.
- Clancy's Pies (PDF, 68 KB)
- Life Be In It NQ (PDF, 73 KB)
- QMW Industries (PDF, 71 KB)
- Cracker Print and Paper (PDF, 78 KB)
- Cairns City Council (PDF, 163 KB)
- Kaytown Shoes (PDF, 72 KB)
- Walsh’s Auto (PDF, 113 KB)
- Brisbane City Council - assets team (PDF, 60 KB)
- Brisbane City Council - works construction team (PDF, 80 KB)
- Mt Gravatt Coach and Travel (PDF, 85 KB)
Last updated 22 July 2009