Negative implications of casualisation: The most significant impact of the growth of casualisation for employers is the adverse impact it has had on the quality of teaching. Casualisation cannot be used to eliminate ineffective staff and maintain quality, if the system of casualisation has created poor quality teaching. Casual staff are often not paid to attend, or outright excluded from department meetings, with sixty per cent of casuals not attending, causing issues with shared assessment and quality standards and interpretations of course work and assessment guidelines (Grainger, Adie and Weir, 2015; Rothengatter and Hil, 2013). These communication issues are amplified by reduced time sessional staff spend on campus, causing undue stress …show more content…
Whilst there are substantial benefits for some employees and stronger benefits for employers in the short term, the damage to an employee’s professional development and drastic effect on the quality of teaching which impacts students are long term affects which far outweigh any short-term gains (Rothengatter and Hil, 2013; Grainger, Adie and Weir, 2015). An analysis of the significant negative implications for casual employees reveals that not all stakeholders benefit. There are admittedly positive benefits for some employee’s, whom casual work suits due to its flexible nature and pay rates (Anderson, 2003, Junor 2004). However, the more common experience of casual employee’s is both negative and causes adverse reactions, such as decreased morale and motivation (Rothengatter and Hil, 2013) Whilst employers maintain the growth of casualisation is a necessity to combat decreasing Government funding and that it suits reduced hours of teaching staff (whom have several months off a year), they have not adequately addressed issues of decreasing quality caused by casualisation which have resulted in damage to Australia tertiary reputation significant enough to warrant inquiry (Rea, 2016; Rothengatter and Hil,