noun
- the process of converting casual employment or workers into permanent or regular employment status
Usage: chiefly British; labor/employment context
Examples
- The union pushed for decasualization of warehouse workers to provide job security.
- Decasualization efforts aimed to give temporary staff access to benefits and stable hours.
- The company resisted decasualization, preferring the flexibility of a casual workforce.
- Labor advocates argued that decasualization would reduce income inequality among workers.
- The government's decasualization policy required employers to offer permanent contracts after a set period.