Work is going to change for millions of Australians.
With the election campaign focused on issues as disparate as the cost of living, China’s growing regional influence and transgender women playing sport, you might have missed it — but the incoming Labor government has promised a radical overhaul of an employment system it says is letting workers down.
"The changes are potentially going to be huge… potentially massive,” says Dr Giuseppe Carabetta, senior lecturer in employment law at the business school of the University of Sydney.
Changes to boost security will be welcomed by Janine Saligari.
"It's a juggle," she says, of the pressures of insecure work.
She's spent most of her career in the community services sectors, helping women from refugee, asylum seeker and migrant backgrounds.
It has been rewarding but the funding model meant a churn of insecure roles: short contracts and "temp" placements that lacked sick leave, holiday pay and superannuation.
Now in a stable position running programs at a neighbourhood house in the Melbourne suburb of Chadstone, Ms Saligari describes her job security as a relief from how she used to live.
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