Programme for the Forum Ageing and Employment Policies

9:00-9:30

Registration

9:30-9:45

Opening session

Mr. Bruno Tobback, Minister for pensions, Belgium
Mrs. Berglind Ásgeirsdóttir, Deputy Secretary-General, OECD

9:45-10:45

Synthesis Report Ageing and Employment Policies

Chair: Mr. Michel Jadot, Chairman of the Board of the Federal Public Service Employment, Labour and Social Dialogue, Belgium

Main lessons from the OECD review

Speaker: Mr. Mark Keese, Team Leader, OECD (Download the presentation)

Comments from the Chair

Questions on the Synthesis Report

10:45-11:15

Coffee break

11:15-13:00

Theme 1. Labour supply of workers close to retirement

Chair: Mrs. Odile Quintin, Director General Employment, Social Affairs & Equal Opportunities, EC

How to promote flexible retirement pathways while also extending working life ?

Speakers: Mr. Pierre Pestieau, Research Center on Public and Population Economics, Belgium (Download the presentation) and Mr. Peter Auer, ILO (Download the presentation) 

General discussion

13:00-14:30

Lunch, Palais d’Egmont

14:30-16:15

Theme 2. Labour demand for older workers

Chair: Mr. Jan Smets, Vice-Chairman of the Superior Employment Council, Belgium

Why are employers reluctant to employ older workers?

Speaker: Mr. Juan Francisco Jimeno, Bank of Spain, Spain (Download the presentation)
Discussants: social partners:
BIAC: Mrs Loes van Embden Andres and Mr. Jacques Lauvergne
TUAC: Mr. Roland Schneider

General discussion

16:15-16:45

Coffee break

16:45-18:15

Theme 3. Employability of older workers

Chair: Mr. Andrew Treusch, Assistant Deputy Minister, Strategic Policy and Planning, Human Resources and Skills Development, Canada

Are specific active policies necessary to reinforce the employability of older workers?

Speakers : Mr. Markku Lehto, Ministry of Social Affairs, Finland (Download the presentation) and Mr.Yoshihiro Senoo, Assistant Director-General, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan

General Discussion

18:15-18:30

Synthesis remarks for the Ministers

Mrs. Martine Durand, Deputy Director, OECD

19:00

Dinner for Ministers or Heads of Delegations, Palais d’Egmont