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- noun economics The process by which
employment shifts from a preponderance offull-time andpermanent orcontract positions to higher levels ofcasual positions.
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Examples
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In part the decrease was caused by the so-called casualisation of labour, including outsourcing, new consultancies and other forms of self-employment, Hirschowitz said.
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"It has instead led to the so-called casualisation of labour as permanent employment has been replaced by temporary short term jobs in construction," Ollis said.
IOL: News 2010
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Responding, transport department civil aviation branch chief director Anwar Gany said "casualisation" of labour was one of the biggest challenges at airports, and something he would like to see stopped.
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Cosatu is calling on both the employed and unemployed to protest job losses, poverty, working conditions such as casualisation and racism in the workplace.
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Hector Louw, an organiser of casual employees in the retail sector, hoped to do away with "casualisation", which he said was a trend of globalisation.
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However, in order to protect the rights of workers and to expand the space for job creation in the economy as a whole, it is necessary to conduct research on issues such as casualisation, collective bargaining as it impacts on small and micro enterprises and probationary arrangements for young first-time employees.
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The "casualisation" of the country's workforce was of concern and President Thabo Mbeki had asked the department to investigate.
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These include the disjuncture between available jobs and continuing unemployment, significant increases in the formation of companies and reported reductions in numbers of people employed, and the growth in the numbers of "contract workers", representing the worrying global process of the "casualisation" of labour.
ANC Today 2002
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These include the disjuncture between available jobs and continuing unemployment, significant increases in the formation of companies and reported reductions in numbers of people employed, and the growth in the numbers of "contract workers", representing the worrying global process of the "casualisation" of labour.
ANC Today 2002
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Erwin said one area of concern was an increased level of "casualisation" in certain sectors of the economy.
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