piece-work means any work the pay for which is estimated by the amount of work performed irrespective of the time occupied in its performance;
piece-work means any system by which earnings are calculated upon the quantity or output of work performed;
piece-work means the fixed quantity of work to be done by an individual worker to earn a fixed sum.
Examples of piece-work in a sentence
There were similar soil tem- perature gradients (peak at 35.7% and lowest point at 16.6%) between the forest and the Para rubber plantation under dry soil condition.
More Definitions of piece-work
piece-work means any system by which remuneration is calculated by quantity or output of work done;
piece-work means any system by which earnings are calculated upon the quantity or output of work performed; “plain sewer (millinery)” means an employee who performs operations on a flat sewing machine within a Millinery Establishment;
piece-work means any system by which earnings are based solely on quantity or output of work done;
piece-work means any system by which earnings are calculated wholly on the quantity or output of work done irrespective of the time spent on such work;
piece-work means an arrangement whereby an employer and employee agree that the employee is to be paid a wage based upon a specific task or number of tasks to be undertaken by the employee, after which, the employment arrangement is deemed to be terminated;
piece-work means work in terms of which the remuneration of the child worker is based mainly on the quantity of work done;
piece-work means any system under which the minimum wage to which an employee is entitled is calculated solely on the quantity or output of work done, irrespective of the time spent on such work;