talent pool, enhance employee engagement and 16 16 BCEC | WGEA GENDER EQUITY SERIES THE EVOLUTION OF PART-TIME WORK IN AUSTRALIA 17 GENDER EQUITY INSIGHTS 2024: THE CHANGING NATURE OF PART-TIME WORK IN AUSTRALIA THE EVOLUTION OF PART-TIME WORK IN AUSTRALIA Key Insights • Australia has one of the highest shares of part-time employment across OECD countries. [...] BCEC | WGEA GENDER EQUITY SERIES 19 19 GENDER EQUITY INSIGHTS 2024: THE CHANGING NATURE OF PART-TIME WORK IN AUSTRALIA PATTERNS OF PART-TIME WORK OVER TIME An immediate and striking observation from our The share of men working in full-time roles has analysis of the WGEA data collection is the degree to gradually declined in Australia over the past decade, which the labour market status of women a. [...] BCEC | WGEA GENDER EQUITY SERIES 25 25 GENDER EQUITY INSIGHTS 2024: THE CHANGING NATURE OF PART-TIME WORK IN AUSTRALIA HOW DOES THE INCIDENCE OF PART-TIME EMPLOYMENT IN AUSTRALIA COMPARE TO OTHER COUNTRIES? Australia has one of the highest shares of part-time to OECD data, the incidence of part-time work among employment across OECD countries, with part-time women is higher, at 31.8 per cent in 20. [...] And finally, there has been a of satisfaction with pay, flexibility, work stress and significant improvement in the shares of employees job security, as well as the regularity or otherwise of who are able to work remotely as a result of the work schedules and the ability to work remotely. [...] The result of the overall precarity index is shown in To capture more comprehensively the relative Figure 23: the higher the magnitude of the index, the attitudes of part-time and full-time employees greater the level of precarity.
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Table of Contents
- GENDER EQUITY INSIGHTS 2024 THE CHANGING NATURE OF PART-TIME WORK IN AUSTRALIA 1
- About the Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre 2
- About the Workplace Gender Equality Agency 2
- About the dataset in this edition of the Gender Equity Insights series 2
- FOREWORD WGEA 3
- FOREWORD BCEC 4
- CONTENTS 6
- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 7
- KEY INSIGHTS 8
- The changing world of work 8
- What drives the choice of part-time work? And is it a choice? 8
- Labour market outcomes for part-time workers 8
- Company polices and part-time employment outcomes 8
- RECOMMENDATIONS 9
- LIST OF FIGURES 11
- LIST OF TABLES 12
- INTRODUCTION 14
- Defining part-time employment 15
- Part-time work 15
- The rise of flexible work arrangements 16
- THE EVOLUTION OF PART-TIME WORK IN AUSTRALIA 18
- Key Insights 19
- Fair Work Commission Industry Awards – Examples of part-time work agreements 20
- General Retail Industry Award [MA000004] 20
- Health Professionals and Support Services Award [MA000027] 20
- PATTERNS OF PART-TIME WORK OVER TIME 21
- HOW DOES THE INCIDENCE OF PART-TIME EMPLOYMENT IN AUSTRALIA COMPARE TO OTHER COUNTRIES? 27
- THE COMPOSITION OF AUSTRALIA’S PART-TIME WORKFORCE 30
- THE RELATIVE PAY OF PART-TIME WORKERS 32
- Part-time gender pay gaps for selected industries 33
- WHY DO PEOPLE WORK PART-TIME? 36
- Key Insights 37
- REASONS FOR CHOOSING PART-TIME WORK 38
- HOW DOES PART-TIME WORK VARY BY AGE? 40
- ENTITLEMENT TO FLEXIBLE WORK BY LABOUR MARKET STATUS 44
- IS THERE A PROMOTION PENALTY TO PART-TIME WORK? 45
- PROGRESSION AND PROMOTION RATES AMONG PART-TIME EMPLOYEES 46
- HOW DO EMPLOYEES EXPERIENCE PART-TIME WORK? 50
- SHIFTING THE BALANCE OF PART-TIME WORK: WHAT SHOULD COMPANIES DO? 58
- Key Insights 59
- PROFILING COMPANIES THAT SHIFT THE DIAL IN PART-TIME WORK 60
- WHICH POLICIES WORK? 62
- WHICH POLICIES DRIVE BETTER PAY OUTCOMES FOR PART-TIME WORKERS? 64
- WHERE DOES PART-TIME WORK FEATURE IN THE FUTURE OF WORK? 66
- The changing world of work 67
- Labour market outcomes for part-time workers 67
- What drives the choice of part-time work? And is it a choice? 68
- Company polices and part-time employment outcomes 68
- What role does part-time employment have to play in the future of work? 69
- RECOMMENDATIONS 70
- GLOSSARY & TECHNICAL NOTES 72
- About the WGEA Employer Census 73
- APPENDIX 74
- REFERENCES 78
- Authorship 80
- Acknowledgements 80
