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...
