The Expansion in Non-Standard Employment in Australia and the Extension of Employers’ Control

Abstract

Employment insecurity is hardly a new phenomenon, nor is it a new means for extending employer control over the labour process. What is new, in Australia at least, is the extent and speed associated with the deregulation of employment conditions and the associated erosion of standard employment arrangements. The centralised employment regulatory regime, based on industry/occupational awards, so long a characteristic of Australian industrial relations, is being dismantled. In conjunction with this deregulatory process the security of employment is also diminishing rapidly through the growth in non-standard employment arrangements together with the decline in trade union presence at the workplace. More workers find themselves located outside of the employment regulatory regime, outside of trade uruion representation and in forms of marginal and insecure employment. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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