'insecure job' is an appropriate phrase in written English.
You can use it when referring to a job that is uncertain, at risk of being lost, or has a chance of being eliminated. For example, "With the current economic recession, many people find themselves in an insecure job, uncertain of their future."
Jane Adams* (she didn't want to be identified in case it threatened her already insecure job) lectures at a university in London on an hourly contract.
Funeral poverty is an unexpectedly potent indicator of the combined impact of recession, austerity, low wages and the insecure job market.
Willy's falsity is supposed to explain the life of his disappointing younger son, Biff, who drifts cross-country from underpaid, insecure job to job, just getting by, never on, yet oddly free and able to whistle at work.
According to research being done by Stuart Whitaker, senior lecturer in occupational health at the University of Cumbria, being in an insecure job has a more damaging impact on people's health than actually losing employment - particularly for men.
"The hidden face of good news" declared Libération, a left-leaning newspaper, characterising the growth in these "precarious" jobs as unwelcome evidence of a shift towards a more insecure job market.Yet there is a distinction between part-time and temporary jobs, the two common forms of flexible working.
But for many, taking on the mortgage required to buy a house in a TOKI development is a risk that can easily end in homelessness – especially if one holds an insecure job and has no regular monthly income, as is the case for many former Tarlabaşı residents.
The rise of the insecure job-changing individual crossed with an increasingly global economy is at odds with the ethos and delivery of a system built in less demanding, better drilled times.
Rather, with incomes plummeting and insecure jobs, unhappy couples often couldn't afford to divorce.
But the main driver is the growth of low-wage, insecure jobs.
Meanwhile the millions who move between insecure jobs and unemployment will find their support gone too.
