If unemployment rises, teachers' pay packages will begin to look increasingly attractive alongside more precarious private-sector jobs.
This sign of flexibilisation and especially of deregulation in the labour market is not only a problem for part-time workers: Almost 15%% of the full-time employed in Austria already work in a precarious low-wage sector.
The sudden financial collapse of Britain's biggest care home operator in 2011 caused turmoil for its 33,000 elderly and vulnerable residents, and highlighted the sector's precarious financial situation.
Ben Inker, director of asset allocation at the fund manager GMO, also would expect airlines to gain from cheaper oil, as well as auto manufacturers — shares in both groups soared this week — but because of the precarious state of those sectors, he said he would need to be persuaded that energy costs were headed lower and were likely to remain there.
That would leave the entire sector in a precarious position and would have severe knock-on consequences for the South African economy as a whole.
While not in contradiction with the international standards of the ILO, such a work is often performed in the informal sector, under very precarious conditions, and with little opportunities for further development.
In order to reverse this situation, the National Programme to Reduce Precarity of Work (Programa Nacional de Desprecarização do Trabalho) was set up in the National Health Service in order to encourage stable work relations, guarantee workers' rights and to gradually eradicate the precarious work relations in this sector.
Still, their shared faith in the restorative power of public sector slashing could prove precarious.
What's really needed is to make life better for ordinary, everyday people living in precarious and poor-quality private rented sector (PRS) accommodation.
Prof David Latchman, master of Birkbeck College, which is disproportionately affected, said the report acknowledged that the proposals could undermine the already "precarious" support for the part-time sector.
