Objectives
CAWA's aim is to make a significant contribution to ageing workforce policy awareness and effectiveness. Its objectives may be summarised as follows:
- To raise awareness of the issue among social partners in those sectors, occupations and regions where average workforce age is highest.
- To take into account labour force occupational differences, social retirement policy differences and cultural differences within and between countries in developing policies that will improve both individual choice and societal well-being.
- To involve representatives of the social partners in reaching agreement on benchmarks that will help identify and highlight innovative and effective policy and practice.
- To bring the nationally-developed benchmarks together to inform the creation of a European Code of Best Practice on the Ageing Workforce.
- To develop effective dissemination methods by which the benchmark and European Code can be inserted into sectoral, regional and national debates on workforce ageing and which can be adopted by other sectors and other European countries.
