[Webinar] Delaying Retirement: Impact of America’s Aging Workforce on OSHA and Employment Matters

Kara MacielFounding Partner, Conn Maciel Carey

On Wednesday, December 16th at 1:00 PM ET, join Lindsay A. DiSalvo and Ashley D. Mitchell for a webinar regarding Delaying Retirement: Impact of America’s Aging Workforce on OSHA and Employment Matters. 

The single biggest factor affecting safety and health in America’s workplaces today is our aging workforce. Older workers offer valuable experience and job knowledge, but with that comes an increased risk of serious workplace injuries due to physiological changes affecting flexibility, strength, vision, hearing, and balance. Although older workers experience fewer total injuries than their junior counterparts, the injuries they do have tend to be more severe and require longer recovery times. With more than 30 million workers 55 years or older expected to be in the U.S. labor force by 2025, and huge numbers of workers remaining in the workforce well past traditional retirement age, employers face unique challenges in keeping employees safe and healthy and complying with a host of state and federal laws.

This webinar will review the realities of our nation’s aging workforce and how employers must carefully address these realities without running afoul of OSHA regulations and federal and state anti-discrimination laws, such as Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, and the Americans With Disabilities Act.

Participants in this webinar will learn about:

  • Data and trends driving America’s aging workforce
  • Impact of the aging workforce on workplace safety & health
  • Related OSHA regulatory issues employers must monitor
  • ADA and other age and disability discrimination pitfalls, including COVID-19 related concerns

Click here to register for the December 16th webinar.

This is the 12th and final regularly scheduled webinar event in Conn Maciel Carey’s 2020 Labor and Employment Webinar Series.  Stay tuned for info about the 2021 series! Click here to view our full schedule, detailed program descriptions, and individual registration pages for all of the webinars in the 2020 Labor and Employment Webinar Series.  To register for all of Conn Maciel Carey’s Labor and Employment webinars, click here to send an email request to [email protected] , and we will get you automatically registered. If you missed any of our past webinars in our annual Labor and Employment Webinar Series, click here to subscribe to our YouTube channel and view our webinar archive.

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