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Workforce trend since 1996 – low pay, casualisation and ‘work till you drop’ Australian Bureau of Statistics workforce trend data in September 2004, showed: - Half of all employees - around 4.1 million working Australians - currently earn less than $650 a week ($33,700 per year).
- Over two million people earn less than $400 per week and have received an annual real pay increase of only $3.73 per week in the period 1996-2002 - less than one twentieth of the gains of the top 10%.
- More than one in every two (50.6%) net new full time jobs created since 1996 have been casual.
- Part time jobs have grown by almost a third (32.5% in the last eight years - outstripping full time jobs growth (10%) by more than three to one.
- Almost a million Australians now work unpaid overtime - an increase of 24% since 1996.
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