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As a tough year wraps up for Australia's labour market, we take stock of the ups and downs of employment in 2020: https://www.futurework.org.au/2020_year_end_labour_market_review_the_pandemic_and_insecure_work. Our @Dan_Nahum and @JimboStanford show how the pandemic reinforced the dominance of insecure work: on the way down, and the way back up ...2
On the way down, workers in insecure jobs bore most of the pain as workplaces shut down. Casual workers lost work 8x faster than permanent, part-timers 3x faster than full-time. Young workers, women, and people who do NOT work in offices all suffered bigger losses ...3
The rebound in employment since May is encouraging--but insecure work is surging again at unprecedented rates. 400K casual jobs have been created since May (2200 per day), the biggest surge in casual work in history. Part-time jobs make up 73% of new work, setting a new high ...4
Now's the time to support more stable, decent work: including limits on casual jobs, and guaranteeing normal entitlements (like sick pay) for all workers. Instead, Commonwealth govt's IR changes will accelerate the growth of insecure work. See full report: https://www.futurework.org.au/2020_year_end_labour_market_review_the_pandemic_and_insecure_work
