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Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news
'Reggie Perrin' test will check
older workers for signs of
mid-life crisis under EU plan
By Ian Drury
Last updated at 1:37 AM on 07th November 2009
Every worker over the age of 45 could be forced to undergo 'Reggie Perrin' tests to identify those at risk of a mid-life crisis.
Under an EU plan, firms would be ordered to carry out psychological tests on older staff.
The aim would be to spot troubled employees who are thinking of quitting their jobs because they begin to doubt their own abilities in middle age.
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Set in 2000 this futuristic tale shows society seperated into two distinct segments.
The upper class lived in the high towers of the city and reaped the benefits of
modern technology.
The lower class resided in the underground regions working to make the machinery
operate.
In reality is this the future of the EU as in Fritz Lang's 1927 masterpiece classic 'Metropolis' ?
Workers aged 45 and above face 'Reggie Perrin' tests (pictured, the character, played by Leonard Rossiter) to see if they are at risk of a mid-life crisis
Other ideas put forward by the EU's economic and social committee, to encourage people to postpone retirement, include forcing over-45s to go on training courses to keep them productive.
But business chiefs, politicians and pensioners' groups described the measures as insulting to older workers and warned that they could cripple small firms.
The most controversial proposal involves making workers undergo assessments to identify those at risk of a mid-life breakdown.
Critics dubbed them 'Reggie Perrin' tests after the TV character played by Leonard Rossiter, who faked his own death to escape his boring job.
The EU committee said: 'The policies target workers at risk due to their personal belief that they lack adaptability skills, self-motivation and the ability to learn.
'If older workers are to stay in work, it is vital for firms to introduce an anticipatory mechanism as early as the middle of a worker's career, to avoid workers becoming at risk.'
Firms and taxpayers would share the cost of tests and training, but the Federation of Small Businesses warned that its members would struggle to cope with additional red tape.
A spokesman said: 'Now is not the time to bring in burdensome requirements which could put them off employing more people.'
Tory MEP Roger Helmer said: 'Forcing older people to take part in retraining or assessments is an outrageous attack on personal freedom.
'It is simply not the role of the state to conscript people on to courses.'
Neil Duncan-Jordan of the National Pensioners Convention said: 'If this committee is looking to raise the esteem in which older people are held, they're going a funny way about it.'
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