Law enforcement practices of employment of elderly people in the modern society context

Mordovia State University, Institute of History and Sociology, Department of Sociology and Social Work, Saransk, Russia

¹ Corresponding author: eienovik@mail.ru

Abstract

Research objective is to study the position of elderly people in the labour market in the modern society context and highlight trends in the social protection of their interests in the field of labour. The paper used both quantitative and qualitative research methods. Such research methods as analysis, synthesis, interpretation, structural-functional approach, classification, typology, grouping, generalisation and interpretation of the information received were chosen. The main research method was the method of a pilot questionnaire survey of older people, as well as a comparison of the author’s research data with empirical research on the problem in question. The research resulted in conclusions from the analysis of the elderly people employment problem in the context of the legislative reform of raising the retirement age and the tendency for the demand for elderly people employment as an objective necessity. The authors believe that society is interested in active longevity and cannot develop if it does not consider the employment of elderly people as a social progress indicator. The scientific novelty of the research is the relevance of the new concept “unemployed elderly” in the context of modern society is argued; highlighted are the contradictions in solving the elderly people problems in the labour market associated with the need to increase the retirement age; the author’s vision of the factors contributing to the labour activities of elderly people is presented; the advantages of the labour potential of elderly people are highlighted.