Some types of precarious employment arrangements would include:
• outsourcing, contracting-out or subcontracting
• casualization, contractualization, contingent or fixed-term contracts, leading to the creation of a large pool of permanently 'temporary' employees
• use of labour agencies
• bogus “self-employment” and independent contractors
• abusive use of seasonal and probationary employment and traineeships
Precarious work in all its forms - when it is not being praised, encouraged and promoted for contributing to labour market 'flexibiilization' - is usually discussed in relation to declining living standards, discrimination, the feminization or poverty etc.
A typical example would be "Precarious employment is employment that is low quality and that encompasses a range of factors that put workers at risk of injury, illness and/or poverty. This includes factors such as low wages, low job security, limited control over workplace conditions, little protection from health and safety risks in the workplace and less opportunity for training and career progression." (Gerry Rodgers & Janine Rodgers, Precarious Jobs in Labour Market Regulation; the Growth of Atypical Employment in Western Europe, 1989).
Campaign goals:
• To stop the massive expansion of precarious work
• To make wages and conditions of precarious workers equal to those of regular workers
• To get workers directly hired and discourage indirect employment
• To limit precarious employment to cases of legitimate need
