Employment system where the worker is paid according to the number of units produced.
Synonyms
Examples for "piece rate"
Examples for "piece rate"
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Nearly all of them pay by piece rate -something most other industries have abandoned.
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Instead, Holten said workers are paid a base rate of $146 per month, plus a piece rate.
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Kirsten Southern, a 34-year-old mother of three, was paid by piece rate in successive jobs on RV production lines at two different companies.
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Thirteen members of the Society discussed the piece rate system at length, and only two briefly referred to the study of the "unit times."
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Fletcher has been on a campaign to end the piece rate system, which "doesn't incentivize workers to be safe or produce high quality," he says.
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The whole family sewed buttons on cards at night at slave labor piece rates.
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Three fourths of these workers are paid piece rates.
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After a winter of forcing skeletons to work for piece rates, the destitute are now to be given soup.
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They said that on former piece rates this man used to make from ninety dollars to one hundred dollars a week.
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More than 2,040 barristers who carry out prosecution work in England and Wales responded, virtually all of those working on piece rates for the CPS.
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Throughout this time the day and piece workers were under entirely separate and distinct management.
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The original foremen continued to manage the day work, and day and piece workers were never allowed to work together.
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When the writer left the steel works, the Bethlehem piece workers were the finest body of picked laborers that he has ever seen together.
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Piece workers have great freedom as to hours, and employers complain much of tardiness and absenteeism.
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She is a piece worker, as many of the women are, and is paid at the same rate as men.
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Throughout this time the day and piece workers were under entirely separate and distinct management.
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Piece workers have great freedom as to hours, and employers complain much of tardiness and absenteeism.
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The original foremen continued to manage the day work, and day and piece workers were never allowed to work together.
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She works on piece work now, getting the same rate as men.
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Each piece work price was accepted by the men without question.
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Wired: 26 Animals is a three piece work of art.
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I guess you could get sentimental about piece work in a factory-afteryoud quit.
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This increase was due to the introduction of piece work.
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The accuracy of inspection under piece work was one-third greater than under day work.
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Absolutely correct piece work prices cannot be given as different localities have different prices.
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Wages differ - hourly or piece work-according to the crop.
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It's piece work, but when animators are being paid to animate, the money is excellent.
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It is, however, under piece work that the art of systematic soldiering is thoroughly developed.
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But this way it's going to be piece work.
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Everyone's competing for spots and Robin McBryde has done great things with all his set- piece work.
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The tobacco factories found solution in piece work with bonus for excess over the required stint.
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He must, at least in a general way, supervise the timekeeping and fix piece work rates.
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In the expense account we include all charges except raw silk, throwing, dyeing and piece work.
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This was done in this case through establishing what is known as differential rate piece work.