casualisation
C2CEFR level
80/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
The trend towards replacing secure permanent jobs with temporary or insecure work.
The union blamed the casualisation of the sector for eroding sick pay and pensions.
Business noun
The shift from permanent employment towards temporary, part-time, or zero-hours arrangements.
Critics blamed the casualisation of the sector for the drop in job security.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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