It then lists off the relevant "concerns": "strike activity is low, wages are responsive to economic downturns and there are multiple forms of employment arrangements that offer employees and employers flexible options for working".
And employers need to think hard about providing new, more flexible forms of employment for older workers.
Informal learning acts as an important bridge into other forms of employment and learning.
The service economy has created some strange and wonderful forms of employment.
That includes expanding unions to represent the growing number of workers in non-standard forms of employment.
"Higher education gives an alternative, to, for example, entering a militia or taking up dangerous forms of employment," she said.
Now that researchers have started to get a grip on the world's microbes, they are – naturally – trying to find them new forms of employment.
The ILO is urging policymakers to consider extending social protection such as pensions and unemployment benefit to workers in less secure forms of employment.
But 31% on the contracts said they wanted to work more hours compared with 10% of those in other forms of employment.
And it would be preferable not to have an economy in which millions of people have to invent marginal forms of employment because there are so few jobs.
The ILO report published on Monday finds temporary work, agency work, precarious self-employment and other non-standard forms of employment have become more widespread.
