Work patterns across Australia have changed dramatically over the past couple of decades
Full time vs Casual work
Australian employment growth is slowing sharply in early 2018. The current unemployment rate is 5.6 %. The vast majority of workers still work fulltime. While part-time workers accounted for 26 per cent of the workforce in 2000, today that proportion is 32 per cent.
According to the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), some contributing factors include:
- Globalisation required businesses to be more flexible and alert;
- More women choose to be in the workforce to add to the family income.
People ages 15 – 24 who used to be in the full-time workforce in the past now make up 50% of part-time workers in this age group while they are
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enrolled in education. For young adults, the part-time share has increased from 15% of employment in 1980 to over 50%, with these workers tending to cite study as their main reason for working part time. According to Labour Account Australia, Experimental Estimates (July 2017) records that a good number of people work more than one job. Interestingly, increasing by 64,100 (9.2%), the growth in secondary jobs outstripped the growth in main jobs which increased by 791,700 (6.8%) over the six years to June 2016. The ABS also reported (May 2017) that1.129 million Australians are working fewer hours than they would like. This translates into an underemployment rate of 9.3%. Employment of People with Disability There are 2.1 million Australians of working age with disability.
Of these, just over 1 million are employed and another 114,900 are looking for work. People aged between 15 and 64 years with disability have both lower participation level of 53% and a higher unemployment rate of 9.4% than people without disability. 34% of people with disability are managers & professionals. Graduates with disability take 56.2 % longer to gain fulltime employment than other graduates. People with disability aged 15-24 years are 10 times more likely to experience discrimination than those aged 65 years and over.
13% of people with disability are more likely to run their own business and another 9% work from home. Some situations may enhance the flexibility of working arrangements, making it easier for people with disability to participate in the labour force.
Employment issues with people that have a Hearing Loss
People who are employed with a hearing loss are likely to feel isolated as a basic and simple communication becomes difficult. Tasks may take longer as instructions are miscommunicated and need repeating.
The risk is that people with hearing loss may become uninterested with the task or work, this is because the lack of the person being able to hear
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fully. - People with hearing loss are twice as more likely to be unemployed than people who have normal hearing A person’s hearing loss can have a massive decline on their teamwork as they struggle to interact with colleagues.
Hearing issues can affect balance in the workplace, this is terrible as it can have an impact on both the employee and the company.
Employers can provide protective equipment to the person with the hearing loss if they are in noisy environments, they can also increase the awareness of hearing loss to their colleagues
Employment issues with people that have a
ADHD/ADD ADHD and ADD are attention learning disorders. 1 in 5 people learn differently than the rest of us. ADHD and ADD is one of those types of disabilities that doesn’t require many adjustments to their workplace. All employees have the right to take breaks when they are tired and can use noise cancelling headphones to help them concentrate better. This is especially and more so true with people that have got ADHD and ADD. Employers should be considerate of people with ADHD and ADD, if their employee asks for a change at work, the employers imindate answer should be yes. Vision impairment Bibliography: Australian Government: Business (2018). Workplace discrimination, harassment and bullying. Retrieved from: https://www.business.gov.au/info/run/workplace-health-and-safety/whs-oh-and-s-acts-regulations-and-codes-of-practice Australian Network on Disability. Employment of People with Disability Retrieved from: https://www.and.org.au/pages/disability-statistics.html Jericho G. (2018). We should be concerned about the casualisation of full-time work. The Guardians: Business (Australia) Retrieved on 14/05/2018 from: https://www.theguardian.com/business/grogonomics/2018/jan/16/we-should-be-concerned-about-the-casualisation-of-full-time-work Marketwatch.com: (2016). How retirement has changed in the last 30 years Retrieved from: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/how-retirement-has-changed-in-the-last-30-years-2016-02-16 Workplace Gender Equality Agency: Australia Government: Learn about workplace gender equality. Retrieved on 14/05/2019 from : https://www.wgea.gov.au/learn/about-workplace-gender-equality
Changes in unemployment in Australia is a key issue in this news article. In the last twelve months, unemployment in Australia has dropped from 5.6 per cent to 5.1 per cent which is described as ‘a puzzle’ in the news article. Looking closer, there are some possible explanations for this change in statistics. Previously, unemployment in Australia increased in the time of the recent global economic downturn, although didn’t suffer as poorly as other countries according to data from the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development. However, while unemployment rose, so too did the number of people in other forms of underemployment such as part-time and casual work (OECD, 2010). According to Sappey et. al., the status of employment requires workers to only work one hour per week and so therefore many underemployed workers receive the same employed status in this data as full-time workers (Sappey et. al., 2010, p. 111). According to the OECD, under-employment increased significantly during the downturn, rather than unemployment. Unemployment has dropped in the last twelve months but that does not mean that those who have obtained work have gained full-time employment. In fact, according to the Australia labour market trends of the last twelve months, it is more than likely that those who have become an ‘employed’ statistic rather than ‘unemployed’ have not gained full-time work. This news article quotes figures fro...
Over the past decades, casual employment in Australia has become a phenomenon of great concern. With the soaring numbers of casual employment, the debates about the benefits and drawbacks of causal employment have become fiercer. Casualization is a very important form of employment in Australia, which has been protected by workplace law. The majority of casual labor force constantly contact with their potential employers to apply job and confirm the arrangement of working time from month to month, or even week to week. In term of wages, causal workers cannot get paid for the annual holiday leave. However, they can receive more paid than the full-time workers for the same working hours. In this essay, how casual employment is defined in Australia and casual employment trend in recent years will be introduced. This article will critically discuss the benefits and harms for both employees and employers in terms of growing casual employment in Australia.
A hearing loss can present many obstacles in one's life. I have faced many issues throughout my life, many of which affected me deeply. When I first realized that I was hearing-impaired, I didn't know what it meant. As I grew older, I came to understand why I was different from everyone. It was hard to like myself or feel good about myself because I was often teased. However, I started to change my attitude and see that wearing hearing aids was no different than people wearing glasses to see.
Deaf people often occupy an uneasy position in society. Since most children with hearing impairments have hearing parents, their family members frequently oppress them by taking over the decision-making processes regarding their well-being (Andrews 27). For ex...
The deaf community does not see their hearing impairment as a disability but as a culture which includes a history of discrimination, racial prejudice, and segregation. According to PBS home video “Through Deaf Eyes,” there are thirty-five million Americans that are hard of hearing (Hott, Garey & et al., 2007) . Out of the thirty-five million an estimated 300,000 people are completely deaf. There are over ninety percent of deaf people who have hearing parents. Also, most deaf parents have hearing children. With this being the exemplification, deaf people communicate on a more intimate and significant level with hearing people all their lives. “Deaf people can be found in every ethnic group, every region, and every economic class.” The deaf culture and hard of hearing have plenty of arguments and divisions with living in a hearing world without sound however, that absence will be a starting point of an identity within their culture as well as the hearing culture.
Though some of the hearing community might take on an unknowingly negative approach on deafness due to a lack of knowledge, for those in the deaf community, their hearing loss is not a burden or a disability, but instead an important component of their identity and culture (Sanger-Katz). Many see being deaf as a positive attribute (Sanger-Katz). The motto belonging to the deaf community is “the deaf can do anything but hear” (“Deaf, not I...
Most afflicted adults were stored away in the back rooms of houses, and children with mental disabilities were given up into adoption or aborted. In addition, Hahn reiterates that legislative polices have pronounced people with disabilities as unfit for society, unable to be hired to do work. People with disabilities are in no way “unemployed” because they can not do work. Hahn’s article, “Disability and the Urban Environment: A Perspective on Los Angeles,” which was published in 1986 is outdated, and the thoughts should be reconsidered. In the Disability and Discrimination Act of 1995 and 2005, it lays out policies that ban employers from discriminating against disabled people, when hiring (The Disability and Discrimination Act). It aims to ensure equal opportunity and a level of fairness in the workplace. Since 1986, the social structure of society has adapted and evolved over time. Nondisabled people are more liberal, and they are accepting; however, there still remains a level of discrimination. Even though they are more aware of the inequalities that exist today, people look down on the disabled population. As a society we need to make drastic improvements, in terms of attitudes. Disability should be viewed in a positive light: instead of a burden, disabled people should be part of the community. Disabled people should not have to deal with the social stigma of being different; it is part of what makes them stronger and more will
Individuals who are deaf or are hearing impaired are faced with many problems in today’s world. There are so many tasks and activities that are done today that deaf or hearing impaired people may have difficulty doing because of there handicap. There handicap used to stop them or inhibit them from doing something that they are interested in or there friends and neighbors would do. However in today there are new and different technologies, that help the deaf and hearing impaired in the activities in which they want to participate in which is hard for them to take part in because of there handicap. Technology is used to help with everyday tasks in the lives of deaf and hearing impaired individuals. With out this new technology which is being invented everyday, deaf and hearing impaired people may be considered to have a handicap which prevents them from certain activities, but this is not the case anymore, now these people just have different obstacles which through the use of technology they are learning to over come. They can do anything that regular normal range of hearing individuals can do, due to the new technology being invented everyday.
Hearing people can have a place in the Deaf community. Each minority group tends to welcome genuine allies and the Deaf community is no exception. But it is important for people who hear to remember our role as allies. We join the community to show our support, not to lead. We can help educate other hearing people, but we are not missionaries to bring Deaf people into the mainstream. Deaf people are the appropriate leaders of their own civil rights movement and teachers of their children. Our role is not to give Deaf people a voice; it is to make sure that the voice already present is heard. And we can do that. We can teach other hearing people to listen.
One such device is the hearing aid. According to the Kendall School Support Services Team (2003), deaf children who wear hearing aids may have increased ability to differentiate between different sounds. They can also better monitor their own voices, making it easier for them to build speech skills. Enhanced ability to understand conversation is another benefit. However, hearing aids do not make sounds clear, nor do they make hearing perfect. Further, the student must sit near the speaker, as extraneous noise makes listening an even greater challenge (Kendall School Support Services Team, 2003).
Provided with the viewpoints on both the medical model and social model of disability, it is clear that these two concepts differ in terms of the definition of disability as well as the attitude of society towards people with disabilities. It is evident that people with disabilities veer towards the social model rather than the medical model. It is essential to acknowledge that Deafness is categorised as a medical disability within the individual as well as a societal disability, as society is not equipped enough to deal with the communication barriers that stem from hearing impairments.
The Deaf community suffers twice as hard with mental illness than hearing people as an example they suffer from depression anxiety and schizophrenia . What makes it harder for deaf people to get help with their mental illness is that they have a harder time finding support and places to go because not everyone knows sign language and there might not be an interpreter to access which makes their problem only worse. Many people have hearing loss, The population is between 15% and 26% but it is different to be profoundly Deaf especially if you have been deaf since you were born. About 7 out of 10,000 are in this category, and most put themselves into a minority that only uses sign and not the spoken language.
Kaye, H., Jans, L., & Jones, E. (2011). Why don't employers hire and retain workers with disabilities? Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation, 21(4), 526-536. doi:10.1007/s10926-011-9302-8
Being Deaf doesn't have to mean being silent. Approval by the rest of society would give them the recognition and acceptance they deserve and need to truly live full lives.
People with disabilities often face societal barriers and disability evokes negative perceptions and discrimination in society. As a result of the stigma associated with disability, persons with disabilities are generally excluded from education, employment, and community life, which deprives them of opportunities essential to their social development, health and well-being (Stefan). It is such barriers and discrimination that actually set people apart from society, in many cases making them a burden to the community. The ideas and concepts of equality and full participation for persons with disabilities have been developed very far on paper, but not in reality (Wallace). The government can make numerous laws against discrimination, but this does not change the way that people with disabilities are judged in society.