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Casual or short-term contracts, a lack of professional development, little hope of career progression: a survey of academic working conditions sounds a warning.

Reports of big university budget surpluses appear to undermine calls for their federal funding to increase. But a closer look at how the surpluses were achieved reveals why change is needed.

Lifting wages will be a priority for the Albanese government to ease the cost of living. But the unions and the Greens are likely to push for more changes to tackle problems with the Fair Work system.

The problem of insecure employment for academics came to a head during the pandemic. The neglect of this issue is eroding our intellectual capital along with education and employment opportunities.

A recent study highlights the precarious world of rideshare and delivery drivers during the pandemic, and their struggle to be heard as non-unionised contractors.

In an Australian first, Western Australia has formally recognised the psychological and social stress of insecure work.

Many formal sector jobs are increasingly precarious and poorly paid, meaning that formal work is not an avenue to greater social equality for many people.

The supply crisis in the meat processing industry was entirely predictable. Employers and the government should have seen it coming.

The pandemic home-delivery boom is driving a push to automation and precarious work by Australian supermarkets.

Disclosure statement Alex Veen is part of a research team that received a University of Sydney Business School Industry Partnership grant. Uber Technologies is a Partner Organisation on this grant and provided a minority financial contribution to the project. He further receives funding from the Australian Research Council in the form a Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) for his project entitled Algorithmic management and the future of work: lessons from the gig economy. Caleb Good...