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The Flood of Insecure Employment

Posted 9 August 2018 by Paul Kniest (Uni Casual)

The Flood of Insecure Employment is an update of the 2016 publication The Rising Tide of Insecure Employment.

This report shows that the considerable increase in use of insecure forms of employment (people employed as casuals or on limited term contracts) have been sustained in recent years. The rising tide of insecure employment experienced between 2004 and 2012 has not subsided and our universities are now inundated with people without ongoing permanent jobs. The data shows that just over one in three (35%) of people now working at our universities enjoy ongoing permanent work. In addition to this flood of insecure employment, the report also highlights that the staffing of our universities is experiencing increasing feminisation and increasing specialisation in academic work.

Find both publications at www.unicasual.org.au/resources/publications

Discussion Paper
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The Flood of Insecure Employment at Australian Universities

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  1. Anne Junor said on 6:11 Friday 24 Aug, 2018

    [ +1 ] I wish to pay tribute to the unflagging, visionary and strategic work of Grahame McCulloch in steering the NTEU through its first 25 years

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