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Meanings of piece-rate system in English

Russian
сдельная заработная плата
Catalan
treball a preu fet
Spanish
trabajo a destajo

Employment system where the worker is paid according to the number of units produced.

      сдельная заработная плата
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      Examples for "piece rate"
      Examples for "piece rate"
      1
      Nearly all of them pay by piece rate -something most other industries have abandoned.
      Reuters
      2
      Instead, Holten said workers are paid a base rate of $146 per month, plus a piece rate.
      Reuters
      3
      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.
      Reuters
      4
      Thirteen members of the Society discussed the piece rate system at length, and only two briefly referred to the study of the "unit times."
      Shop Management
      5
      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.
      Reuters
      1
      She works on piece work now, getting the same rate as men.
      Mobilizing Woman-Power
      2
      Each piece work price was accepted by the men without question.
      Shop Management
      3
      Wired: 26 Animals is a three piece work of art.
      Wired
      4
      I guess you could get sentimental about piece work in a factory-afteryoud quit.
      "Same old Bill, eh Mable!"
      5
      This increase was due to the introduction of piece work.
      Shop Management
      1
      The whole family sewed buttons on cards at night at slave labor piece rates.
      The Godfather
      2
      Three fourths of these workers are paid piece rates.
      Increasing Human Efficiency in Business / A Contribution to the ...
      3
      After a winter of forcing skeletons to work for piece rates, the destitute are now to be given soup.
      The Irish Times
      4
      They said that on former piece rates this man used to make from ninety dollars to one hundred dollars a week.
      Working With the Working Woman
      5
      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.
      The Guardian
      1
      Throughout this time the day and piece workers were under entirely separate and distinct management.
      Shop Management
      2
      The original foremen continued to manage the day work, and day and piece workers were never allowed to work together.
      Shop Management
      3
      When the writer left the steel works, the Bethlehem piece workers were the finest body of picked laborers that he has ever seen together.
      Shop Management
      4
      Piece workers have great freedom as to hours, and employers complain much of tardiness and absenteeism.
      Women Wage-Earners: Their Past, Their Present, and Their Future
      1
      She is a piece worker, as many of the women are, and is paid at the same rate as men.
      Mobilizing Woman-Power
      2
      Throughout this time the day and piece workers were under entirely separate and distinct management.
      Shop Management
      3
      Piece workers have great freedom as to hours, and employers complain much of tardiness and absenteeism.
      Women Wage-Earners: Their Past, Their Present, and Their Future
      4
      The original foremen continued to manage the day work, and day and piece workers were never allowed to work together.
      Shop Management