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| 60% businesses employed senior people in 2008: Poll |
| Kyodo/ PTI / Tokyo Aug 21, 2009, 12:59 IST |
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Almost 60 per cent of businesses have employed workers aged 60 or older last year, a latest labour ministry survey has pointed out.
The senior people comprise 10 per cent of full-time employees and their inclusion in business reflects the need of a relevant law, the ministry said yesterday.
The number of senior people is up 2.4 points from 2004 and reached the double-digit figure for the first time since the ministry began compiling data in 1992 the rate was 4.9 per cent.
The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare survey covered the employment situation at 9,700 business establishments with five or more regular employees in September 2008. Replies were received from 6,465 of them, a response rate of 66.5 per cent.
The survey found that 59.4 per cent of employers had people aged 60 or older on their payroll last year, up 8.9 percentage points from the previous survey in 2004, the ministry said.
Among other findings, 50.2 per cent of responding businesses employed workers aged 60 to 64, 26.9 per cent employed workers in the age bracket of 65 to 69, and 15.6 per cent had people aged 70 or older on their payroll.
Smaller establishments tended to have more elderly workers, the ministry said. For example, the rate of senior employees there was 12.0 per cent at those employing five to 29 workers.
By sector, real estate had the highest rate at 18.1 per cent, followed by transportation with 14.9 per cent and mining with 13.7 per cent.
The survey also found that 89.1 per cent of businesses with a mandatory retirement age of 60 to 64 had programs to continue employing workers after the limit.
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