Slightly offtopic, but do you have in America casual employees?
In Australia, many non-professional jobs have award wages. These are the minimum rate you're allowed to pay someone in that position, eg a Pharmacy Assistant may earn a minimum (and I'm making these figures up) of $18.50/hr full time. I think this figure may vary by state, but I'm not sure. These rates are for full time employees; 37.5hrs/week, 10 sick days, 4 weeks holiday, 10 public holidays all of which you're paid for.
Anyway, there's also Casual employees who aren't paid for any of the above (no sick pay, holiday pay etc), and they usually only work <20 hrs/week, but in return their award pay is 17.5% higher than that of a fulltime employee
[Disclaimer: I actually know very little about this, it being 10 years or more since I needed to know, and there's a high likelihood things have changed and the above info is all wrong]
Yes we do have casual employees, the term is "part time" in America. They generally work less than 20 hours a week, no benefits like time off or holidays, but they usually don't make more money than full time employees though.
In Australia, many non-professional jobs have award wages. These are the minimum rate you're allowed to pay someone in that position, eg a Pharmacy Assistant may earn a minimum (and I'm making these figures up) of $18.50/hr full time. I think this figure may vary by state, but I'm not sure. These rates are for full time employees; 37.5hrs/week, 10 sick days, 4 weeks holiday, 10 public holidays all of which you're paid for.
Anyway, there's also Casual employees who aren't paid for any of the above (no sick pay, holiday pay etc), and they usually only work <20 hrs/week, but in return their award pay is 17.5% higher than that of a fulltime employee
[Disclaimer: I actually know very little about this, it being 10 years or more since I needed to know, and there's a high likelihood things have changed and the above info is all wrong]