decasaulise

Definition
  1. Verb:
    • To end the practice of employing workers on a casual or temporary basis: "decasualise" means to make employment more stable and permanent, typically by converting casual or temporary positions into regular, permanent jobs.
    • To reduce or eliminate casual labour: This verb describes the act of formalising employment arrangements, ensuring workers have consistent contracts and benefits rather than being hired irregularly.
Usage Examples
  • Verb:
    • The company decided to decasualise its workforce, offering permanent contracts to all part-time staff. (The company ended casual employment by making positions permanent.)
    • The new labour law aims to decasualise the construction industry, where most workers are currently hired day by day. (The law seeks to eliminate temporary, irregular hiring practices.)
Advanced Usage

  • "to decasualise an industry": to reform an entire sector by converting casual jobs into stable employment.

    • The government launched a programme to decasualise the agricultural sector, providing year-round contracts to farm workers. (The programme made agricultural jobs more permanent.)

  • "decasualisation" (noun form): the process of ending casual employment.

    • The decasualisation of the port workforce led to improved job security and benefits. (The process of making jobs permanent.)
Variants and Related Words

  • Decasualisation (noun): the act or process of decasualising.

    • The decasualisation of the industry was welcomed by trade unions. (The process of making jobs permanent.)

  • Casual (adj): not regular or permanent; temporary.

    • He worked as a casual labourer before the company decasualised its hiring. (He was a temporary worker.)
Synonyms
  • Regularise: to make something regular or official.
  • Formalise: to give a formal or permanent status to something.
  • Stabilise: to make something stable, especially in employment.
Phrasal Verbs
  • The word is a formal, transitive verb and does not commonly form phrasal verbs.
Related Idioms
  • Idioms are not typically formed with this technical term.