casual employment bridge or trap
Article - Casual Employment in Australia: Growth, Characteristics, A Bridge or a Trap? By John Burgess and Iain Campbell Casual employment is one of the biggest workforce developments in the past decade. As Burgess and Campbell state "one in every four Australian employees is a casual" (p. ... Two key issues discussed in this article are how casual employment has doubled over the past decade and how this type of employment is continually expanding. However the purpose of the article is to determine whether casual employment is a bridge or a trap for individuals. ... There are no graphs but 5 tables all of which are figures from Australia that look at; how casual employment has increased; casual employment by industry; casual employment by gender; part-time job starts after May 1995; and job seekers in May 1995 by destination. However when arguing whether casual employment is a bridge or a trap, Burgess and Campbell base the bulk of their assumptions on data from countries outside Australia. The main argument that is discussed within the article is whether causal employment is a bridge for individuals; a stepping stone that leads into bigger and better things, such as full time employment or a trap which individual get stuck in therefore never reaching full time employment status.