Unit 8 With Tom

Working Patterns?—

Shift Work

Shift work 
People use this method to try and cover the clock and not over work people. They may also do this if they are on a tight schedule and need to get a film or programme done For example if they need to finish a film by a certain date and they only have so long left they might make someone work from 8:00am - 8:00pm and then make the other person work from 8:00pm - 8:00am.

Generally fixed term contract means you are tied into the contract for a fixed term. An example would be like a telephone line, most companies have a fixed term contract of say 12 months, apart from your 'tester period'. At the beginning you are stuck in the contract for 12 months.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shift_workFixed term


Office hours
Office hours means the hours set for business, work or professional service in an office. It is a set amount of hours a day. For example a 
9-5 job which you do every day. Log in at 9 log out at 5.



Freelance
A person who sells their services to employers without a long term commitment to any of them. For example if a BBC needed someone to edit a show but it was a one off special and they didn't want their usual editors to work on it they may then hire a freelance worker so he can work for that one project and then have no long term commitment to them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freelancer

Irregular patterns
This means you might have work for 3 months and then you may not have any work for 6 months so you don't work for a while and your work becomes irregular. For example an actor might get a part in a movie and shoot for 6 months then not get another role for a month then shot for 4 months then not get a job for 3 months etc etc. This then makes his work an irregular pattern.

Hourly rates
Hourly rates is how much money you get paid hourly. For example if you were working as a camera man and they said they are Paying you hourly then they may pay you £7.00 and hour so for every hour you are their working you get paid £7.00. 

Piece work
Piece work is any type of employment were a worker is paid a fixed piece rate for each unit produced or action performed regardless of time. This means they might say they will give you £2000 to do a project and finish it. However could work for a total amount of 300 hours or 500 hours on one project and get paid the same no matter if you work for both amount of hours.