MATURE TALENT PROJECT
Recent data from Australia and the developed world indicates that the population is ageing, that Australia’s workforce is ageing and that employees now tend to retire later or not at all. However, there is no reliable data about the workforce and retirement intentions of local government employees in Australia. What is known is that there are challenges related to the ageing workforce and the related loss of expertise and institutional knowledge, increasing competition for labour and skills, and the demands of increasing service pressures in the sector.
In order to gauge the extent of this issue in the Australian local government workforce, a toolkit has been produced and is being sent to a pilot group of councils around Australia in the second half of 2014. Then in early 2015, after enough time has elapsed for them to use and familiarise themselves with the toolkit, each pilot council will be surveyed with the intention of gauging practitioner utility and then streamlining the toolkit and distributing it more broadly to attempt to counter some of the challenges. Based on the pilot councils responses, a report will also be written which will be available by mid-2015.
In order to gauge the extent of this issue in the Australian local government workforce, a toolkit has been produced and is being sent to a pilot group of councils around Australia in the second half of 2014. Then in early 2015, after enough time has elapsed for them to use and familiarise themselves with the toolkit, each pilot council will be surveyed with the intention of gauging practitioner utility and then streamlining the toolkit and distributing it more broadly to attempt to counter some of the challenges. Based on the pilot councils responses, a report will also be written which will be available by mid-2015.
