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Casual University Work: Choice, Risk, Inequity and the Case for Regulation

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Australian universities now have a headcount casualisation rate near the national workforce average. Reasons for, and impacts of, this development are explored, and an argument is made for the role of industrial regulation in reconciling requirements for flexibility, security and equity in university employment. Responses to a large survey of casual academic and general staff suggest that this employment mode is a minority preference. Discrete groups of casual university staff, including those seeking university careers, those with other secure income sources, and students in transit to other careers, experience different forms and levels of insecurity and inequity. Appropriately targeted regulatory responses thus include criteria-based caps, a general staff conversion mechanism, a work value review, access to increments and service entitlements, and workplace representation rights.

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  • Anne Junor, 2004. "Casual University Work: Choice, Risk, Inequity and the Case for Regulation," The Economic and Labour Relations Review, , vol. 14(2), pages 276-304, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:ecolab:v:14:y:2004:i:2:p:276-304
    DOI: 10.1177/103530460401400208
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    1. Mark Wooden & Diana Warren, 2003. "The Characteristics of Casual and Fixed-Term Employment: Evidence from the HILDA Survey," Melbourne Institute Working Paper Series wp2003n15, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne.
    2. Campbell, I & Burgess, J, 2001. "A new estimate of casual employment?," Australian Bulletin of Labour, National Institute of Labour Studies, vol. 27(2), pages 85-108.
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