Meeting the Challenge of Casual Work in Australia

evidence, past treatment and future policy

By Barbara Pocock, John Buchanan and Iain Campbell

A focus on policy options to contain the expansion of casual work in Australia.

The first part summarises the evidence on casual work and why it is a problem in Australia. The second part looks at some of the factors that have facilitated its growth. The third section considers the ways in which casual work has been regulated in the past, with particular attention to some of the new developments in the past three years, such as the right of conversion. Finally, in the fourth section, the authors outline some policy initiatives.

(Australian Bulletin of Labour; vol. 30, no. 1, March 2004)

National Institute of Labour Studies; Flinders University