GREY WORKERS

SENIOR WORKERS

by HAO VO

Multiple Choice

Insurance company Sun Life of Canada made a decision that it would hire more Canadian employees rather than British ones in order to get fresh staffs.

• TRUE

• FALSE

• NOT GIVEN

Multiple Choice

Unlike other places, employees in Japan get paid according to the years they are employed.

• TRUE

• FALSE

• NOT GIVEN

Multiple Choice

Elder workers are laid off by some German companies which are refreshing corporate culture.

• TRUE

• FALSE

• NOT GIVEN

Multiple Choice

According to Peter Hicks, companies pay older people more regardless of the contribution they make.

• TRUE

• FALSE

• NOT GIVEN

Multiple Select

According to the passage there are several advantages to hire elder people, choose TWO from the following options

• Their productivity is superior to that of the young.

• They are paid less compared with the young ones.

• They run fast when there is a meeting.

• They have a better inter-person relationship.

• They identify problems in an advanced time.

Multiple Select

According to Mr Peterson, Compared with the elder employee, young graduates have several weaknesses in the workplace, please choose TWO of them below:

• They are not worth training.

• Their productivity is lower than counterparts.

• They change work more often.

• Their academic criteria is someway behind the elders’.

• They are normally high school graduates.

Multiple Choice

According to paragraph F, the firms and workers still hold the opinion that:

• Older workers are more likely to attract other staff.

• People are not happy if pay gets lower in retiring age.

• Older people have more retaining motivation than young people.

• Young people often earn less for their piece-rates salary.

Multiple Choice

SkillTeam that has been founded by IBM conducted which of the following movement:

• Ask all the old worker to continue their job on former working hours basis.

• Carry on the action of cutting off the elder’s proportion of employment.

• Ask employees to work more hours in order to get extra pay.

• Re-hire old employees and kept the salary a bit lower.

Multiple Choice

Which of the followings is correct according to the research of Mr Quinn:

• About 50% of all employees in America switched into ‘bridge’ jobs.

• Only the worst-paid continue to work.

• More men than women fell into the category of ‘bridge’ work.

• Some old people keep working for their motive rather than an economic incentive.

Multiple Choice

Which of the followings is correct according to David Storey:

• 70% business is successful if hire more older people.

• Average success of a self-employed business is getting lower.

• Self-employed elder people are more likely to survive.

• Older people’s working hours are more flexible.

Multiple Choice

What is the main purpose of the author in writing this passage?

• There must be a successful retiring program for the old.

• Older people should be correctly valued in employment.

• Old people should offer more helping young employees grow.

• There are more jobs in the world that only employ older people.