casual worker
On-call labor
A casual worker is someone employed on an irregular or as-needed basis rather than under a permanent contract.
Casual workers typically lack guaranteed hours, benefits, or job security, working only when the employer has demand: The restaurant relies on casual workers during the busy season.
The arrangement offers flexibility to both parties but leaves the worker economically vulnerable.
- tempProvisional worker, briefly
- temp agencyBroker for provisional workers
- gigShort-term paid work
- gig economyWork based on temporary contracts
- freelancerSelf-employed service provider
hired gun · part-time · hourly · day rate · seasonal · contractor · short-term hire · shift · day laborer · pickup · flexible · hustle · paycheck · living paycheck to paycheck · no benefits · agency · on-call · precarious
- casual workersday laborer, temp, freelancer, hired hand, pieceworker
- laborerslaborers, day laborer, day labourer, day laborers, hired hands
- temporary rolestemp, internship, substitute, interim, substitute teaching
- temp worktemp, temps, temp agency, temping, warehouse temp
casual workersalaried worker
Employee receiving fixed compensation
full-time staff · company man · organization man · union worker
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