Workforce casualisation

Workforce casualisation is the process in which employment shifts from a preponderance of full-time and permanent positions to casual and contract positions.

In Australia, 35% of all workers are casual or contract employees who are not paid for sick leave or annual leave.

In the United Kingdom, 53% of academics teaching or doing research in British universities manage on some form of insecure, non-permanent contract, ranging from short-term contracts that typically elapse within nine months, to those paid by the hour to give classes or mark essays and exams.

See also

• Casual work
• Change management (a term used to describe the process of dismissing workers)
• Contingent workforce
• Contingent work
• Gig economy
• Permatemp
• Precariat
• Precarious work
• Temporary work
• Zero-hour contract