The pickers, who are paid piece rates, do not get a raise, but they hope profit sharing will add appreciably to their average of $ 9 an hour.
42.
The strike began on September 22, 1910, when sixteen women protested the Hart, Schaffner, Marx firm due to a biased bonus system and a cut in the piece rate.
43.
Wage rates may be as basic periodic rates of pay ( an hourly rate ) or, where an Award or NAPSA contains such provisions, as basic piece rates of pay.
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However, the assumption that firms are unable to measure effort and pay piece rates after workers are hired or to fire workers whose output is too low is quite strong.
45.
If a worker will be paid on a piece rate basis, the worker must be paid the prevailing piece rate as determined by the State Workers Agency ( SWA ).
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Here in Salinas, a lush farm center on California's Central Coast, the piece rate for picking broccoli remains 20 percent below levels of a decade ago, even before considering inflation.
47.
If a worker will be paid on a piece rate basis, the worker must be paid the prevailing piece rate as determined by the State Workers Agency ( SWA ).
48.
It was not, in its first edition, intended to address deeper questions of political economy; the second ( late 1832 ) did, with three further chapters including one on piece rate.
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The women who earned enough to live on found it impossible to keep their salary rate from being reduced because bosses often made " mistakes " in computing a worker's piece rate.
50.
Bryan said his company would raise the price it pays its 60 growers, a move that would help raise piece rates so workers could earn $ 10 to $ 12 an hour.
