Payment by Flat Time-Wages

Payment by Flat Time-Wages
Payment by Flat Time-Wages
Wages are paid at an agreed rate per hour, day, or week, without reference to the quantity of work done. Overtime is usually paid at higher rates, e.g. time and a quarter, time and a half, or double time.

There is no special inducement to attract more than average effort, except that the employee must work with sufficient diligence to ensure that his services will be retained.

The method is suitable in the following cases:
(a) Where supervision is close.
(b) For supervisors, inspectors, general labours, and other classes of indirect labour,
(c) When measurement of work would not be simple, e.g. engine drivers, airline crew.
(d) For precision work, e.g. tool-markers and pattern-markers, where care is more important than speed and large output.
(e) Where high wages or rates are paid and standards of efficiency and output are set which the foremen must maintain.
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