The Bulletin


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Self-employment and casual work aren't increasing but so many jobs are insecure – what's going on?

  • Written by David Peetz, Professor of Employment Relations, Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing, Griffith University

That casualisation and self-employment rates are not increasing is often trotted out to dispute perceptions that workplace insecurity is growing.


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But retorts like this miss a few key points.

First, the real causes of growing insecurity aren’t the type of contracts people are...

Read more: Self-employment and casual work aren't increasing but so many jobs are insecure – what's going on?