Casual Employment In Australia
Casual Employment
Introduction
Election promises from Labor and liberals 2004
2004 is an election year in Australia and one of the issues that the parties have diverse election promises on is to which extent employers should be authorized to use casual workers, and what rights the casual workforce should be entitled to.
Casual workers play a central part in the Australian labor market as it is the fastest growing form of employment. Next to Spain, Australia has the second largest casual workforce in the world (Munn, 2004), with an ongoing apparent trend towards additional increase. In a research note done by the Department of Parliamentary Services, it is stated that in 2003 that over a quarter of all wage and salary earnings were …show more content…
This means that ALP wants additional permanent employees and less casual workers (Gartrell, 2004). While The Liberal Party of Australia (LPA) conversely has a devotion to enhancing labor market flexibility and believes that the ALP propose would hurt the economy to much. This will imply more casualisation of the workforce (Loughhane, 2004).
Casual employees
There is no standard definition of a casual worker, but one prevalent perception is that a casual employee is someone in a job that is "short term, irregular and uncertain".
Several employers regard a casual employee to be a member of staff who is paid a higher hourly rate than a full or part-time permanent employee, and they think that this rate compensates for the lack of paid leave and other entitlements (Wageline, 2004). However, hourly rate does not define …show more content…
Working as an casual worker allows the employee to show that they are able to execute a job, in which case an employer may feel that it is safe to employ the worker on a permanent basis, either part-time or full time (Gaston & Timcke, 1999). On the other hand, this form of employment has been coupled with discontent, low wages and lack of career opportunities (Munn, 2004). And as ANZ's points out in their publication on "Casualisation of the Workforce"; the difficulty casual workers face in a process of getting endorsement for loans, due to the uncertainty of tenure (Munn,
Introduction
Election promises from Labor and liberals 2004
2004 is an election year in Australia and one of the issues that the parties have diverse election promises on is to which extent employers should be authorized to use casual workers, and what rights the casual workforce should be entitled to.
Casual workers play a central part in the Australian labor market as it is the fastest growing form of employment. Next to Spain, Australia has the second largest casual workforce in the world (Munn, 2004), with an ongoing apparent trend towards additional increase. In a research note done by the Department of Parliamentary Services, it is stated that in 2003 that over a quarter of all wage and salary earnings were …show more content…
This means that ALP wants additional permanent employees and less casual workers (Gartrell, 2004). While The Liberal Party of Australia (LPA) conversely has a devotion to enhancing labor market flexibility and believes that the ALP propose would hurt the economy to much. This will imply more casualisation of the workforce (Loughhane, 2004).
Casual employees
There is no standard definition of a casual worker, but one prevalent perception is that a casual employee is someone in a job that is "short term, irregular and uncertain".
Several employers regard a casual employee to be a member of staff who is paid a higher hourly rate than a full or part-time permanent employee, and they think that this rate compensates for the lack of paid leave and other entitlements (Wageline, 2004). However, hourly rate does not define …show more content…
Working as an casual worker allows the employee to show that they are able to execute a job, in which case an employer may feel that it is safe to employ the worker on a permanent basis, either part-time or full time (Gaston & Timcke, 1999). On the other hand, this form of employment has been coupled with discontent, low wages and lack of career opportunities (Munn, 2004). And as ANZ's points out in their publication on "Casualisation of the Workforce"; the difficulty casual workers face in a process of getting endorsement for loans, due to the uncertainty of tenure (Munn,