7.
“Casual employment is the ‘cake and eat it’ effect. You are put on as a casual, so your employer doesn’t have to offer you work if they don’t feel like it. Nevertheless, they require you to immediately work when they do feel like it. This is really crappy. There are three approaches:”
“1. Roll with it and do what they ask. You’ll make some money.
2. Just say no to shifts you don’t want to do, accepting the risk that they might never offer you work again. You may find that they are desperate and will roll with you.
3. Speak to them and say that if they want to take this approach then you should be made permanent part time or permanent full time, or fixed-term full time.
Having casual employees works pretty well for some situations, but it is no substitute for permanent full/part time.”
—u/tassieburglar
Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/juliawilling/treatment-of-casual-workers-in-australia