Decent Work For the Contingent Workforce in the New Economy

By Rosemary Owens

There have been immense changes everywhere in the nature of work and the regulatory forms that govern it. The end of what has been a neat divide between typical and atypical employment is an example.

Because of all these changes organisations such as the ILO promote the notion of "decent work for all." Owens examines whether the Australian safety net is an adequate protection of decent work and life. She focuses on a new regulatory strategy for the protection of basic workplace rights and entitlements, that of providing some casuals with the opportunity to convert to ongoing employment.

(Australian Journal of Labour Law; vol. 15, no. 3, December 2002)