The practice of ‘casual’ employment has become a means to foster insecurity and low power, depriving many workers of leave under the guise of an alleged need for flexibility.
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The Victorian government has announced a pilot program to provide sick and carer's leave for casual workers.
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the dangers of unhealthy workplaces and disempowered workers.
The failure to anticipate the consequence of workers having no paid sick leave is one of the greatest flaws in Australia's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has voiced frustration at workers who don't stay home despite having COVID-19 symptoms. But the problem is linked to growing workforce casualisation and use of labour hire.
The Federal Court of Australia has rejected the notion workers can be employed as 'permanent casuals'.
Almost 37% of Australian workers do not have paid sick leave. We need to fix this if we want people not to turn up to work when sick during the coronavirus pandemic.
Even before COVID-19, 22% of international students often went without food or necessities and almost half depended on paid work to cover the rent. With many of their jobs gone, they're now desperate.
A new analysis shows an economic downturn due to COVID-19 will dramatically increase rental stress for people with insecure or casual work.
Most workers are still employees, not casuals or gig workers. So what has changed to increase the insecurity of workers?
Proposed changes to South Africa's labour laws would make it almost impossible to strike and render the planned national minimum wage unenforceable.
Australia's cash economy is hard to document, but can be followed through the fortunes of young workers.
The Australian Industry Group (Ai Group) said that casual employment has not increased in Australia for the past 18 years. Is that right?
The Marikana massacre of 2012 triggered strikes across South Africa and political realignment. But could this, and the formation of the United Front to rival the ANC, have long-term significance?
Failed by the institutions meant to protect them from exploitation, South African Post Offices workers gave up on the legal system, resorting to illegal means.
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Professor of Employment Relations, Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing, Griffith University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Melbourne
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Peter Whiteford is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Associate Professor, Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW
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Shelley Marshall is a Friend of The Conversation.
Associate Professor and Director of the RMIT Business and Human Rights Centre, RMIT University
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Professor of Employment Relations, School of Business and Law, CQUniversity Australia
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Professor, Institute of Public Policy and Governance, University of Technology Sydney
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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John Bray Professor of Law, University of Adelaide
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Principal Research Fellow, National Institute of Labour Studies, Flinders University
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Research Associate, Future Social Service Institute, RMIT University
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Professor of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Distinguished Reserach Professor, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Research Economist, RMIT University
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Adjunct associate, Swinburne University of Technology
