peace work??

Question

my friend works as a shed maker and works on peace work. can somebody tell me what this means or where i can find information about it because he usually gets quite a good wage but this week got 81p!

Answer 1

Piece work usually involves a minimum wage too, although your friend earned 81P literally, he is also entitled to minimum wage for each hour, which is something above £5.00+ in the UK. £230 quid for a week, or more maybe.
Now lets say piece minimum is £300, and they offer £10 per shed, then before the 'bonus' part starts to be earned, you would need to produce 300 sheds. Then if you made 500 sheds you would get £500 etc.

Now in the UK employees are entitled to holiday pay at their normal pay rates, and this is a minimum of 20 days per year, later this year it goes up to 26 days a year payed leave.

So if your friend earned £0.81.p whilst on 'xmas holidays', they were actually entitled to their 'normal wage' income. This is usually based on the last 10 or 12 week 'rolling average' pay. So look at the last 3 months income and divide it by 12, that is the pay you should get while you are on annual leave (roughly). Dont forget you are taxed too so look at the pre-tax (gross) figures.

Answer 2

peace work, is for example if i asked you to paint a shed for £100.00 and it took you a week,thats all youd get paid,on the other hand if you did it in one day,youd still get£100.00 and you could move on to your next job, therefore earning more money in that week? employers are very crafty ive known them to do this and if youre earning good money ie producing a lot of work,they stop the peace work,give you a set wage and expect you to produce the same amount of work as you were on peace work! what arguement have you got then? the best option is to balance yourself,so youre not pushed out,as in being too greedy,so if this happens your employers wont expect the same level every week?

Answer 3

Piece work is where you get paid for the work you produce. Used quite a lot in pit or mining work. Hope this helps.

Answer 4

You mean PIECE work. By this system, you get paid for every piece of work that you finish. It's usually associated with repetetive assembly jobs and the more you complete, the more you get paid.

Answer 5

As above piece work is when you get paid for the amount of work you do or the amount you produce, rather then by the hour.

Answer 6

To clarify the earlier answer.
This is where workers are paid by the number of units made (pieces).
Miners used to be paid a fixed sum per ton of material etc.

Answer 7

It's piece work and means you get paid for what you have actually done and not an hourly rate

Answer 8

iit is not PEACE WORK but PIECE WORK...........that means paid per item not per hour.........the faster you work , the more you earn......an example is that you stitch a collar onto a shirt.....thats YOUR PIECE......