In the last decade or so Australia has experienced a major change in the structure of employment, from the standard full-time workers to new and ever growing forms of non-standard employment such as, part-time work, casual work; contractors and so on. The driving force of this change has been the phenomenon known as globalisation which has forced Australian companies to compete on the international arena with other major businesses in a search for profits, as …showed first 75 words of 3195 total…

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