Older workers need flexibility, training, but often fail to get it
By Eve Tahmincioglu
msnbc.com contributor
updated 9:56 a.m. ET, Thurs., July 30, 2009
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Anne Staats was 75 when she took a year off work to care for her ailing husband.
After her husband passed away, she was ready to go back to her job as a receptionist for a home care and medical staffing company but didn't want to work full time. Fortunately for her the company, Interim HealthCare in Sunrise, Fla., had a program in place to hire older workers and allowed her to return to work three days a week with full benefits, including vacation and sick time.
“I was lucky to be working for Interim,” says Staats, now 85. “Other companies would look at you and say, ‘You’re too old.’”
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